NTSC PAL conversion software on mac-based NLEs

[justin_w]

Does anyone know a way of encoding broadcast quality NTSC to PAL, and visaversa, on a Mac? On PC's it is possible to purchase software (Canopus) that will do high quality conversions, but on Mac's so far nothing I have seen looks good. I work on mac-based NLE's running Avid, Media 100, FCP, Cleaner5 and Quicktime. Any ideas? Thanks. justin@frontierproductions.com

[offline]

This is a common problem.
The only soultion to date is to setup a PC. If realtime is not
important you can even use s/ware on the net that is free for PC's
providing you frameserve as avi in something other than QT.

[tgpo]

Why not just use Quicktime Pro. You could take your video and export as a Toast Ready Video-CD and use the PAL option. YOu ending product would be a PAL encoded .mpeg.

[offline]

Why not just use Quicktime Pro. You could take your video and export as a Toast Ready Video-CD and use the PAL option. YOu ending product would be a PAL encoded .mpeg.

Video CD broadcast quality ???

[offline]

This is a common problem.
The only soultion to date is to setup a PC. If realtime is not
important you can even use s/ware on the net that is free for PC's
providing you frameserve as avi in something other than QT.

I've done this for some clients. inc Canopus

Mind you, I have always wondered how a good stand alone
transcoder would assist. As I'm not in the DV field (just computers)
I'm sure there are problems with this (DV->Analog->TRanscode->DV)
as otherwise everyone would be doing it [/quote]

[jchansen]

Why not NTSC DV exported to PAL DV via quicktime pro?

[TheCleaner]

Cleaner 5 will do the best job on the Mac. Nothing but a 'proper' hardware based standards converter will do the job to broadcast approval standards.

[Ross]

I have not followed this tread very close, but....
has anybody simply demux, edited the mpeg header, then re-mux
if the following is not clear, email me, RNC

VTS_01_0.mpv mpeg header

-address- --header id- -A-- -B- CD
0000000: 00 00 01 B3 2E 01 E0 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

A Horizontal Size in Hex
16 0 = 352
1E 0 = 480
2D0 = 720
2E 4 = 740

B Vertical Size in Hex
0F 0 = 240
1E 0 = 480

C Aspect Ratio
1 = 1:1
2 = 4:3
3 = 16:9
4 = 2.211 (not used in dvd)

D Frame Rate
1 = 23.976
2 = 24
3 = 25
4 = 29.97
5 = 30
6 = 50
7 = 59.94
8 = 60

[offline]

simply demux, edited the mpeg header, then re-mux

I've done something similar on a PC (some problems with hybrid sources) but it works.. but for true broadcast quality? I remember I was not
100% satisified with the result so I never repeated it except for the
odd DVD backup