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Posted by Teeafit on 03/06/07 10:09
In my experience, you'll probably have to bite the bullet and get it
done 'properly' if you want decent results. I use Avid 7 as my
editor, and it's possible within that to fool the program into
thinking that your PAL project is an NTSC one, and play it out to tape
(assuming your recorder can be switched to genuine NTSC input). But
it is only a 'quick & dirty' solution, which didn't work for me
because there were a lot of graphics that crawled across the screen.
Without the sophisticated interpolation facilities of a proper
conversion program (such as Alchemist) you're going to get a
stuttering effect due to missed and duplicated frames. If your raw
material is largely still (or slow-moving), you might get away with
it, but I certainly didn't.
The annoying thing is that I got a quote from a Yorkshire firm for
UKP60 to do a conversion, which I thought a bit low. With hindsight,
they were clearly going to use a process similar to the one that I'd
already tried on my own kit (as above), but I found a London firm who
quoted UKP150, which I thought was more encouraging. But it turned
out that they were only doing the same thing, but charging London
prices -- I had to throw it back at them and get them to do it
properly, which cost UKP400! A good result though.
As we say in Yorkshire, "Thoo dussent get owt fer nowt!"
GRAEME ALDOUS
Teeafit Sound & Vision
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