PAL tape to NTSC tape. Can Pyro A/V and Premiere Pro help??

[pijetro]

So i captured a PAL tape via my newly bought Pyro A/V link..
Since Adobe Premiere was used for capture, what would be the fastest method to get back out to tape with reasonable quality???

Here's a few scenarios i've tried...
1) AviSynth script to resave .AVI into NTSC, import into PPro, re-render.
2) Open up new NTSC project, import PAL .AVI, and re-render.
3) Open up new NTSC project, Interpret footage as (29.97) and re-render..

Seems like all the options are time consuming, require too much diskpace, and very unproductive..
Believe it or not, I find it much easier to use an AVISynth script, and burn to DVD. :P

Any suggestions??

[ark]

Try "ACE" Time Base Corrector. Is allows direct conversion of PAL->NTSC and NTSC->PAL.

Try locating this UK company through Google.

[pijetro]

This is what i did..

Reencoded the PAL video to NTSC, via Xsdeeni's guide for 25i source to 29.97i output..
Since i couldn't get the Smoothdeinterlace() plugin to work, i used FieldDeinterlace() from the Decomb package..

Output was noticably choppy on tape. Quality was passable. Therefore i'll try a slowdown to 23.976fps, and see if i can somehow get a hard telecine into the video..
Then proceed to drop back onto the Premiere timeline, and Export once again...

[lapaz]

maybe this thread can help you:


http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewt...convert#782913

[pijetro]

Essentially, that's what i was doing, but cutting out the Premiere middle man.
It's easy enough to slow down the video to 23.976fps, with an AVISynth script, but how do i hard telecine a video in VirtualDub??
Simply changing the framerate to 29.97fps won't work..At least i don't think..

So this is that i'll attempt to do..
Avisource("I:\video.avi")
AssumeFps(23.976,true)
LanczosResize(720,480)
ResampleAudio(48000)
FieldDeinterlace()#From the Decomb package

From this point, i need to open up VirtualDub, and see if i can hard telecine the video, and FastRecompress via PanasonicDV codec..

Once this is done, i should be able to drop the resulting video on a new Premiere Timeline, without the need for a re-render, but rather, straight playback, and record to VCR...