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Shooting PAL 50i and finishing in NTSC 24p


Mike Krumlauf

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I am currently shooting some stuff on good ol Mini DV on the Canon XL1 and Sony PD150 (both PAL models of the camera) and im looking to finish the material in NTSC 23.98p. No audio is needed, im just curious what is the best way in 2020 to convert PAL interlaced video to NTSC 24p Progressive with as minimal of resolution loss as possible?

 

Heres my capture process.

 

Capture using the Panasonic AJ HD1400 Deck via HD SDI blow up & AJA Kona 3 Card set at 1080i25 (some reason that capture card doesnt have a 1080i50 mode)

Edit in FCP 7

Edited by Mike Krumlauf
adding details of my capture process
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As far as I remember, the PD150 was interlaced only. XL1, of course, was progressive.

Back in the days when I used to shoot low budget music videos in the UK, we occasionally used both cameras , and any standards conversion to NTSC was done by simply dropping the clip onto a 23.98 timeline in FCP7 and letting the software figure it out. 

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