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royster · Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 276 Location: England/Greece

I'm new to video and I'm trying to get all the technical facts right before I start.
Does it matter if you shoot in NTSC or PAL or best to shoot twice.
If you shoot in either does it affect how you save the file for uploading.
Thanks for any help on this

odesigns · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:33 am

I personally only shoot NTSC frame rates, with the occasional 24fps clip thrown in. My thinking is, if a buyer wants another frame rate or format, they'll do the conversion themselves.

But I also don't think buyers know or even care about this these days. Most are probably using these videos for some Powerpoint or web video.

Some agencies convert for the buyer upon request, thus further making this a non-issue.

I say shoot in the native format your camera uses. Don't bother doubling your work making an NTSC and a PAL version.

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rinder99 · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:44 pm

Agree.

mateimiruna · Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 730

Frame rate is a real issue. Going from 30p to 24 is not that easy but almost impossible. And that's only mathematics. The reverse way is no problem at all. So, at first sight it looks recomandable to shoot at 24fps. But what if the client wants to play around with speed to get a little slow motion effect? Than the buyer definitely needs 30fps. Alos, 24fps means smaller files. So, prior to shooting think what is the worth frame rate: if the action is worth playing with speed then shoot 30fps. If the speed is not worth playing around then shoot 24fps. I should have said first that there is a visible difference between footage shot at 24fps and 30fps, what is called the cinema effect(which includes others factors too, but frame rate is one of the main factors). If I managed to trouble you more, that's good, it means you are thinking!

Good luck!
Christian.

P.S PAL vs NTSC: Shoot PAL, the image quality is far superior to NTSC(I know, the NTSC fellows will jump to my neck). PAL has a better quality and a bigger market share. PAL to NTSC is pretty easy for anybody.

royster · Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 276 Location: England/Greece

Thanks for your time and answers.
The camera should arrive next week so I'll be able play with it and practice.

pharm · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 9406 Location: Never quite sure

If you use After Effects and have a need to convert your frame rate, this works well:

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/frame_rate_converter/

pichunter · Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 755 Location: Ottawa, Canada

There seems to be a bit of confusion for a newbie, frame rates are generally 30fps in NTSC and 25fps in PAL region's. 24fps is the rate associated with the cinema.

Your best advice is from Odesign, film in your countries native format that your camera comes from, which looks like from your forum badge to be PAL 25fps.

odesigns · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:00 pm