EMC 10 Video conversion: NTSC and PAL

[mdicicco]

Hello All,

 

I am considering buying EMC 10. I have relatives in the UK and Brazil that would love to see videos of my son. Therefore, I would like to burn DVDs so they are viewable in Brazil and in the UK. Does EMC 10 have the capability to convert content recorded in NTSC to PAL and vice versa?

 

The video content ws caputured on a Panasonic GS300 using miniDV tapes. The GS300 is a NTSC camcorder.

 

I will be using my PC to capture the video via Firewire and then using EMC 10 to create the DVDs.

[sknis]

Hello All,

 

I am considering buying EMC 10. I have relatives in the UK and Brazil that would love to see videos of my son. Therefore, I would like to burn DVDs so they are viewable in Brazil and in the UK. Does EMC 10 have the capability to convert content recorded in NTSC to PAL and vice versa?

 

The video content ws caputured on a Panasonic GS300 using miniDV tapes. The GS300 is a NTSC camcorder.

 

I will be using my PC to capture the video via Firewire and then using EMC 10 to create the DVDs.

Yes, you can make a PAL or NTSC project.

[notadigitalguru]

Yes, you can make a PAL or NTSC project.

 

You may be able to create either project, but like myself, I want to work on a project in NTSC and then be able be able to either generate either an MPEG version in NTSC or PAL or do the transcode during DVD burning, and yes you can do that with MediaCenter...but it looks like rubbish. The NTSc to PAL transcoding seems to either do frame deletion, or something that makes the quality very poor, jerky and unwatchable.

 

If anybody gets a clear answer from Roxio...that doesnlt relate to upgrading drivers post i here.

[gi7omy]

I doubt if it's a driver problem - the European TV standard (which has the misnomer PAL) is 25 frames per second and 625 line with Phase Alternate Line (that's what PAL actually is) colour sub-system while the US TV standard is 525 lines at 30 fps with NTSC colour sub-system.

 

Ignoring the PAL and NTSC chroma systems, any replay of 25 fps movies in a 30 fps system will be poor quality and vice versa.

 

Best to do the editing in the original avi or mpeg files and then render to one or the other

[notadigitalguru]

I have PAL DVD's that I play on a multi-region multi-format Philips DVD player onto an NTSC TV and they look great. There are different algorithms that can be used for change the fps transcoding. Roxio doesn't appear to have it quite have it right. Any ideas how Philips can do it?

 

 

I doubt if it's a driver problem - the European TV standard (which has the misnomer PAL) is 25 frames per second and 625 line with Phase Alternate Line (that's what PAL actually is) colour sub-system while the US TV standard is 525 lines at 30 fps with NTSC colour sub-system.

 

Ignoring the PAL and NTSC chroma systems, any replay of 25 fps movies in a 30 fps system will be poor quality and vice versa.

 

Best to do the editing in the original avi or mpeg files and then render to one or the other

 

 

Forgot to mention that if editing is done using the original AVI and rendered to NTSC looks good...rendered to PAL it looks rubbish. If an NTSC rener MPEG is transcoded to PAL it looks rubbish. If a DVD project in NTSC is generated and then transcoded to PAL it looks rubbish.

 

 

I have PAL DVD's that I play on a multi-region multi-format Philips DVD player onto an NTSC TV and they look great. There are different algorithms that can be used for change the fps transcoding. Roxio doesn't appear to have it quite have it right. Any ideas how Philips can do it?

[grandpabruce]

I have PAL DVD's that I play on a multi-region multi-format Philips DVD player onto an NTSC TV and they look great. There are different algorithms that can be used for change the fps transcoding. Roxio doesn't appear to have it quite have it right. Any ideas how Philips can do it?

 

Ask them.