:blink: OK We have just shot a film on S16 all well and good. Telecine onto DigiBeta cam and transfer to miniDV for the offline. After a lot of hard work, and mysterious dropped frames, black holes and media that constantly required re-rendering, we discover that some cluts has pressed the wrong button at the start and all of the PAL footage was edited into NTSC format. Platform used was Final cut pro HD. Obviously the post production facility had a mini fit when they tried to match the EDLS.
We tried to convert the footage back to PAL and found that the computer wants to keep the same frame rate as NTSC (ie 29.98 fps), which makes it impossible to write to tape as the machine keeps waiting for a PAL signal.
Is there a way of converting the NTSC footage to PAL at 25 fps without major loss of media, time coding, or anything else of importance? Basically we need to try to get the online as soon as possible. Obviously re-editing all of the footage is an option but a costly one at this point. Help please.