NTSC to PAL with Canopus Procoder Express?

[Graham T]

Hi,

Can anyone out there tell me whether I can convert an NTSC avi to PAL using Canopus Procoder Express rather than its costlier big brother?

I have some footage I need to convert.

Thanks,

Graham.

[drfsupercenter]

There are freeware ways to do this as well.

What file type is it?

[Graham T]

Hi,

It will be a Canopus Dv avi, down smapled from an NTSC HD tape and digitised using my Canopus Storm 2 system. I will borrow the HD player from work which I believe will play back both PAL and NTSC tapes.

If you could let me know the freeware that would be great. Does it do a good job?

Thanks

Graham.

[drfsupercenter]

Um, what format is it in now, tape?

What you can do is 1. Capture it in PAL format or 2. Convert after it is captured in PAL. You are going to capture with Canopus?

And what were you going to do with it, burn it to DVD or did you want a specific type of file?

[Graham T]

It is currently on HD tape shot with HD camcorder in NTSC format, I will capture this into my Canopus storm 2 system. Then edit the footage footage using Premiere still in NTSC and then I want to convert the edited footage into PAL so I can burn a PAL DVD.

[drfsupercenter]

OK, Premiere can export as DVD I think so just select PAL from the menu.

[Graham T]

As simple as that. Thanks.

Graham.

[blutach]

It's a matter of selecting the source and targets correctly. In target, select it as PAL that's all, Press convert and away you go.

EDIT: I am using the costlier big brother - so I may be wrong about Express's capabilities.

Regards

[Graham T]

Hi Les,

Procoder express is fairly cheap in England so I'll probably buy a copy but after reading your useful DVD guide I've realised if I create an NTSC DVD most of the PAL multi-region players here will actual play it without any problems on a PAL tv without the need to convert all the footage using a program like procoder.

Thanks,

Graham.

[blutach]

Well, good luck Graham. Come back if you need any further help.

Regards

[UncasMS]

you are not converting avi => avi or are you?