On 24/07/2005, at 5:02 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
My Sony DV camera works in PAL and when importing into iMovie there
is always a bit of shenaniging around as iMovie believes most of
the world is NTSC and if you inadvertently try to import PAL into
an NTSC new project it tells you so.
Reviewing some older clips today, transferred into iMovie sometime
ago, lo and behold I find a project in NTSC. Sure enough there are
29 and a bit frames per second and the extra seem to have been
generated by repeitition of one of the parent 25 PAL frames.
How can this happen? More importantly can I convert back again? I
suspect QT PRO will do it for me. Alternatively, I know I have the
original footage but on which roll and where on that roll?!
Severin Crisp
Hi Severin,
In iMovie you can change the export format:
1.Choose File > Share and click QuickTime.
2.Choose Expert Settings from the compression pop-up menu and click
Share.
3.Type a name for your movie and choose where you want to save it.
4.Choose "Movie to QuickTime Movie" from the Export pop-up menu and
click Options.
5.In the Video pane, click Settings to open the Compression Settings
window.
6.Choose DV-PAL format from the pop-up menu
7.Drag the Quality slider to the desired quality. Best is recommended.
8.Type the value (25 for PAL) in the "Frames per second" field ),
and then click OK.
9.Click Size to open the Export Size Settings window, and then click
"Use custom size."
10. Type the value 720 for both PAL in the Width field and in the
Height field 576 for PAL and click OK.
11.Click Settings in the Sound pane. Leave Compressor set at None.
12.Choose 48.000 from the kHz pop-up menu in the Sound Settings window.
13.Select "16 bit" and "Stereo," and then click OK.
14.Click OK in the Movie Settings window.
15.Click Save.
Cheers,
Ronni
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