Convert/re-render "Pal Wide screen 1024 x 576" to "NTSC Wide Screen" ?

[Eaton]

Hi
I have to convert/re-render a "Pal Wide screen 1024 x 576" to "NTSC Wide Screen". What are the correct setting for NTSC Wide Screen?

These are the current Pal Wide screen 1024 x 576 settings.
http://www.500mills.com/rerender.jpg

I am not sure if i have to crop the rendered files or scale/stretch it. If anyone can give me some tips on the correct way of doing this.
Thanks
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BTW hope i didn't post this in the wrong place....

[trixian]

Would you not just dump the result from your PAL Project into a new project set up for NTSC? This will give you a slight black border, but you could uniformly scale to compensate. Didn't think anyone used the old SD formats anymore these days.....are you going for interlaced as well?

[oligophant]

AFAIK, PAL means 24pfs and NTSC means 29.7fps so in order to do this you have to fill that gap, AF can interpolate those frames in your current project, but if you have fast movements it will be noticeable. In order to do this, select your clip on project tab, right click> interpret footage, go to frame rate and change it, then click ok, once you do this, drag and drop to the timeline and done!

If the clip is an image secuence, make it a lossless video, use a codec like lagartih to keep good quality , its free.

Hope i can help, sorry my english

[Mikokariadis]

Pal is 25 fps. NTSC can be a lot of things because of drop frame. Depends on the editor, there is a lot of stuff out there that is not standart.
Going Pal to NTSC with non square pixel aspects is not a problem, just use a good proper algo when scaling material.

[thablanch]

Mabee you could take a look at SuperC

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

It converts anything to anything in a few seconds.. really a few seconds. A conversion that would take half an hour in AfterEffects would take less than a minute in SuperC. It is free. ( the web page looks like whatever, just go bottom of page)
Try this before re-rendering....