NTSC to PAL with lip-sync?

[mits]

Hi all,
is there a way to convert NTSC captured and edited footage to PAL and keep the lip sync ? Gear is a Mil II + RRS and MSP 6.0.

Thanks

[Dr Mordrid]

The few NTSC to PAL conversions I've done lately have mainly been using DV and they went rather well using MSPro 6.5.

All I did was to use an NTSC project setup to match the clips and then just change to 25 fps & 720x576 in the render options. For DV I had to change to DVAudio PAL too.

These all ran 30 minutes max, so I don't know how a longer project would do.

Dr. Mordrid

[dZeus]

how does it convert the video? I guess 30 vs 25 is a bit too much difference to slow NTSC down to the PAL framerate.

And interpolating gives the nasty side-effect that it takes a lot more bandwidth to get decent picture (bad for SVCDs).

Though of course it's good that it's possible

[J.O.N]

You can try MotionPerfect - it uses motion estimated interpolation to create new frames, and it has presets for PAL/NTSC conversions.

https://www.motionperfect.com

I experimented with it for various things and its brilliant!

J.O.N.

[Dr Mordrid]

Basically most conversions involve dropping a few frames a second to correct the frame rate difference, something like what's done with inverse telecine where 29.97fps NTSC video is converted to 24fps film.

Where Motion Perfect would have an advantage is in correcting the "jitters" this can induce.

Tip: MotionPerfect works best with files that have very high quality. PICVideo at Quality 20, HuffYUV etc. Using highly compressed sources or restricted formats like DV isn't always pretty.

Dr. Mordrid

[Frank Marshall]

This is a really bad way to do it, it works better going from PAL to NTSC, and fast motion scenes tend to 'strobe' a little but here's what I did recently:

Deinterlace and resize the footage to 704 x 576 using the highest quality settings in VirtualDub, then bring the resulting footage into Avid Cinema with your project set to PAL settings, it will do the timing for you (to some extent).

Very unsophisticated and amateurish but it worked well enough for me.

All the best with your efforts.