The standards converter does a good job of this but it can be confused by erratic movement, rapid cutting, or objects passing behind or in front of other objects.

This re-created 'in-between' field is used to simulate what the NTSC camera would have seen at that point in time. Motion is analyzed and each object on the screen is assigned a motion vector (like an arrow that points in the direction of motion) and this information is used to figure where the object should have been between two different fields in the video. The aDVanced PAL-NTSC converter software program uses the same principles. (An example of this is the Snell & Wilcox Alchemist standards converter). Standards conversion (a service) or aDVanced PAL-NTSC Converter (Windows only)Ī standards converter is a $100K+ machine which uses dedicated circuitry to analyze and blend video information to do the conversion from PAL to NTSC or vice-versa. 'How does Atlantis compare with other methods of converting PAL to NTSC? I didn't want to mention this in my original email to see if the same names pop up or if folks had entirely different suggestions.Īnyway, here's the blurb from Atlantis.has anyone used this (or its competitor aDVanced DV PAL/NTSC? Apparently Canopus ProCoder is the best but it comes at a price. Vegas may have the converter, but is it possible to get a 'better result' while staying in the budget of about $150.įor example, the software converter by DVFIlms Atlantis makes some claims in its comparisons against Vegas, Premiere, etc. Thanks for the reply farss.I know it sounds like a case of 'RTFM', but I was interested if anyone had other recommendations although I wasn't clear about the fact that I had indeed done some prior investigation and was looking to see if there was any need to go 'outside of the box'.

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