PAL -> NTSC conversion for DVD

firstly, get yourself a tv that can playback in PAL and NTSC, will save you a bit of hassle. if you are happy with the results of TMPEG in the PAL->NTSC conversion, then use it to create an avi if you really want to use CCE for the mpeg-2 encoding. for the company logo on the dvds here, i just exported the 25fps PAL project to 720x480 and 29.97fps, runs slow, but its not that long of a clip ;) Enf...

1, record or create your video in progressive 25fps mode. this will help the pal 2 ntsc conversion at a later stage. 2. in premiere, you can interpret the video (in timeline) as 24p. Then you correct the audio pitch, usually using soundforge and make it 104% pitch corrected. 3. By the time you finish with the timeline, you can output a 24p video stream to CCE, which you can encode as is. 4. After CCE session done, use pulldown exe pulldown source.m2v final.m2v -tff even -prog_seq p -prog_frames i you will have a 24p mpeg2 (with corrected speed as 29.97fps) + pulldown flag to allow ntsc playback, a progressive sequence with interlace frame type. I did this several times just to test it, successfully. Remember the source is progressively recorded. There is no simple way to do this when you create/record the video in interlace mode, since in movement scenes, the interlacing will bound your video like Tiberian Bats!

nhope: yes, deinterlacing would allow creation of progressive frames, with a price, of course. But that's a different story :). Do deinterlace if you like and the result is ok with you. As for 24p, yes i meant 24p, but the calculation is not 25*25/29.97. It's 25*25/24(or 23.976). The 29.97fps is the number after pulldown. So it is 104. cheers rob

Cheers! Head has actually now exploded. I think I need to go and find myself a nice simple primer on interlaced/progressive/PAL/NTSC etc etc!