Converting PAL miniDV into NTSC

[echeng 0]

Hey, video gurus. I have a PAL miniDV tape here with footage I'd like to get into NTSC format. My SONY PDX-10 can play the PAL footage back, but I can't seem to get the footage off of the camera via firewire nor s-video. Any tips? Must I use a PAL deck to firewire off the footage, and then convert to NTSC?

[echeng 0]

Well, I haven't figured out how to do it in Premiere yet (when I open a PAL project, it complains that my Canopus card won't work with it), but using DVStorm -- the software that came with my Canopus -- it seems to be working. Setting the card to PAL mode required a reboot, but it is now importing properly from my NTSC camera.

 

So I'm all set.

[MikeVeitch 0]

Or...you could buy one of the new ZR HD Sony's that do both PAL and NTSC, finish your project, then give it to me!!

[echeng 0]

OK. I posted a movie:

http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8345

[Nick Hope 151]

The very best software conversion from PAL to NTSC these days is said to be using Twixtor software.

 

Canopus Procoder makes a good job. This is what I use. Expensive though.

 

Sony Vegas is said to make a good job too with the right settings. Other current NLE's might make a good job on their own but Premiere 6.5 certainly didn't.

 

You can farm footage out to get it converted by hardware converters in realtime or better but I'm told that a good Twixtor conversion can beat even them.