Problems with Compressor

[kard_rellik]

I have been converting .mov files to mpeg format using compressor(most recent update). They view in quicktime prefectly fine. The problem is when i go to burn them to dvd using toast 6 it says that it has to change to PAL format. Unfortuantely my DVD player uses NSCT(I think that's right). I have tried changing presets in compressor but it still says that it needs to be pal format. Is there another program I can use to convert to .mpg than compressor or am i missing a setting somewhere?

[WiseWeasel]

The problem is that your source material is in PAL format, and so it is using PAL resolution, colorspace and framerates. The conversion to NTSC needs to be done before-hand, for example exporting them to DVCPro-NTSC at 29.97 frame/sec, and then to MPEG. You must be very careful not to lose audio synch as you change framerates, but QuickTime is usually pretty good at that.

[havema-1]

FWIW, JES Deinterlacer is a very good utility to convert PAL<->NTSC (it can also do a "bob" deinterlacing by converting video fields to frames etc).

NTSC converted to PAL is of good quality when viewed on an interlaced TV. I once tested it by converting PAL to NTSC and back to PAL and the 3rd generation video was surprisingly good.

http://home.planet.nL/~jeschot/#DEI

[kard_rellik]

ok i used JES Interlacer and that changed the frame rate. now the problem is size. Is there any way to convert the file using JES but control the file size?

[havema-1]

> Is there any way to convert the file using JES but control the file size?

I don't quite understand the question. JES Deinterlacer has a few export file formats but if you want MPEG, you have to re-export the PAL<->NTSC converted file with some other app to MPEG.