PAL footage rendered to NTSC

jkb242 wrote on 1/18/2006, 4:48 PM

I have a friend who is coming to visit me and is bringing some footagae for me to view and possibly assist her in editing while she is here. If I have her camera to import the clips into vegas, once I have captured the footage, could I not edit and render out whatever project format I choose?

The monitor is really the only device that would be synced to US line frequency but the PC monitor is a progressively scanned display so there are no interlaced fields with which to contend. Therefore, on first thought I have told her I could do this. Does anyone see any problem editing and rendering out to whatever format I desire for her use and mine?

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Coursedesign wrote on 1/18/2006, 5:00 PM

Easy-peasy, and better in this direction as you are starting with 20% more pixels.

Do a search for previous posts on this here if you want the best quality.

jkb242 wrote on 1/18/2006, 5:05 PM

Thanks Coursedesign I did not see any issues except that I was beginning to wonder about the line frequency and the different frame sync rate of the PAL material. Do you know where I can find some PAL clips tor a test??

Much thanks my friend!

Coursedesign wrote on 1/18/2006, 5:20 PM

Vegas can ingest and digest just about anything you can throw on the timeline.

Quickest way for you to test is to use Vegas generated media (say some 24-36 pt. text and something geometric), then render that as a PAL AVI, then start an NTSC project and drop that PAL clip on the timeline, then render to DVD or whatever your final format is going to be.

(there are also other ways, but this should give you confidence that it works.)