PAL 720X480

[dongle]

I have been happily using Premiere for several years without worrying about converting to mpeg-2. Now that I am converting to mpeg PAL I notice that I have inadvertantly converted to PAL 720X480. I though by slecting PAL in Premiere the correct 720X576 format would also be selected. Not so. The problem is I now have quite a few clips 720X480. Should I go back and recode them from the original DV tapes or can I use them without sacrifysing quality. I must say that I cannot detect a quality problem.

[GeorgeW]

720x480 is usually associated with NTSC resolution. What is the frame rate of your "PAL" video?

[dongle]

Frame rate is 25.00 fps.
What would be the implications if I tried to mix 720X480 clips with 720X576 clips in Video Studio 8 - presumably it would recode them all to one standard.

[maddrummer3301]

Every video that has the NTSC frame size will be resampled
to the 720X576 frame size. Depending upon how fast you set the
quality bit-rate this may or maynot be to much video de-gradation.

I would convert all the bad videos first to the correct PAL format.
Then in another project import all the PAL's. This way all the
files will be compliant and will not need to be re-rendered.

Of course I don't understand why your not staying with Premier.
MainConcept has a very nice add-on module for Premier that
allows direct editing/capturing of Mpeg2 and HD video.

MD

[dongle]

Thanks for that advice I will look at New Concepts.

[dongle]

Soory I should have written MainConcept.!!

[dongle]

I looked at MainConcept it would certainly be attractive but it is very expensive and I would still have to turn to burning software to get it on a DVD. Ulead does all of this very successfully.