NTSC to PAL : Adobe Premiere

Hello,

I've been working on a project in Premiere to create animated-videos,
however, now the time has come to seriously look at the format used in
order to display these videos on television. Since I hadn't worked
with Premiere before I wasn't aware of using NTSC or PAL-format.
Currently I've been doing some research on this and realize that my
source-material needs to be in either one of the formats. Since the
output needs to be PAL and some of the source-material is NTSC I've
been wondering how to get this material converted. It's mainly some of
the videos that are used that are NTSC-format and need to be rendered
into PAL. How am I able to render it professionally into PAL without
losing the quality?


Thanks,


Pieter

"Pieter Jelle" wrote ...
> I've been working on a project in Premiere to create animated-videos,
> however, now the time has come to seriously look at the format used in
> order to display these videos on television. Since I hadn't worked
> with Premiere before I wasn't aware of using NTSC or PAL-format.
> Currently I've been doing some research on this and realize that my
> source-material needs to be in either one of the formats.

Standard-Definition DVDs (and VHS tapes, etc.) must be either
NTSC or PAL. More modern digital formats make NTSC vs. PAL
less of a problem.

> Since the
> output needs to be PAL and some of the source-material is NTSC I've
> been wondering how to get this material converted. It's mainly some of
> the videos that are used that are NTSC-format and need to be rendered
> into PAL. How am I able to render it professionally into PAL...

There are a number of software applications which can be used
to convert between NTSC and PAL. Good sources of info are
newsgroups like news:rec.video.desktop and the website:
http://www.videohelp.com (many others, also)

> without losing the quality?

That is a cost vs. benefit tradeoff decision you can only make
yourself. You could spend thousands of Euro per hour of
video conversion to get top-quality conversions done as
used for broadcast in "foreign" countries (a lot between
the UK and the USA). Or you could use one of the free
software applications like VirtualDub, etc. Or some other
intermediate solution depending on your requirements and
budget, etc.

Assumptions:
1) You are in Europe somewhere (or are producing for some
PAL market) since you didn't identify your location.
2) The video to be converted is stuff you are getting from
elsewhere. If it is the animation you are producing yourself,
it would be silly to produce in 30FPS when you need 25.

Hello,
What Comparession codec are you exporting to?
"Pieter Jelle" <pieterjelle.de.vries@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I've been working on a project in Premiere to create animated-videos,
> however, now the time has come to seriously look at the format used in
> order to display these videos on television. Since I hadn't worked
> with Premiere before I wasn't aware of using NTSC or PAL-format.
> Currently I've been doing some research on this and realize that my
> source-material needs to be in either one of the formats. Since the
> output needs to be PAL and some of the source-material is NTSC I've
> been wondering how to get this material converted. It's mainly some of
> the videos that are used that are NTSC-format and need to be rendered
> into PAL. How am I able to render it professionally into PAL without
> losing the quality?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Pieter