I need to ship myself the tapes I left at home and the last part would be to figure out how to transfer DV video from PC back to DV tape, as it's the only way I can think of with my current gear to the transfer to VHS.
The Sample Aspect Ratio is automaticaly adjusted in Vegas, so if I disable the stretching video to match project frame size it should be properly stretched, but not upscaled, preserving field lines in PAL field lines, unless it does too much with frame droping, or blending, which is why I always disable resampling.
The sources will be various, sometimes 1080p concerts I've shot, sometimes bootleg DVDs from trading, the latter are predominantly in NTSC unfortunately and part of them come from european concerts, that were shot in PAL and converted to NTSC for trading.īy mastering VHS I meant to record a 1st gen VHS tape from a digital source.Īnd yes, by padding the NTSC video inside PAL frame I meant to preserve the 480 resolution so as not to introduce upscaling artifacts in interlaced video, I am aware that this was probably never used, and everyone just upscaled NTSC video from US TV to air in PAL territoties. There might be exceptions though, I don't know.
That said, all PAL DVD players which I have seen will also play NTSC DVDs. As the OP's source seems to be VHS he won't be losing true resolution by the horizontal shrinking.Ī major issue would be to do the framerate conversion adequately, I think. Reasons I could see for horizontal shrinking with padding all sides would be to make a blurry or low-resolution source look sharper on TV (framed small picture rather than fullscreen), or concerns how to properly resize interlaced video vertically. They all upscale the 480 lines up to 576 lines, leaving the width the same. That said, I've never seen any NTSC->PAL conversion do that. What else could he mean by "padding at all sides with black bars." I think he's suggesting downscaling horizontally and padding the left and right sides as well as the top and bottom. NTSC to PAL, aside from temporal frame drop, what would be your opinion on converting 480 to 576, to upscale, or not to upscale and preserve the 480 resolution within 576 container padded at all sides with black bars? You can't just pad because PAL and NTSC have different PARs (PixelAspectRatios). I wonder if the A/V receiver I'm hunting might be a good option to use as coverter to be fed with HDMI signal and output S-Video.Ģ. DV is fairly uncompressed compared to DVD, I use highest quality setting to use maximum space of DVD, usually ~7800Mbps and the quality degradation compared to source material (DV for that matter) is fatal. Believe me when I say I see the cmopression on DVDs. Having a good VCR (S-VHS) with S-Video-In is probably going to need to be on your list. So I don't have a list of what you should do to grab that extra 1% of perfection. I usually care more about getting the VHS into a computer. With VHS PAL having an approximate resolution of 200x567 Luma and ~40x567 Chroma.
Are you saying that you don't like the way native DVD content looks, like a DVD Movie bought from the store? I've honestly never cared enough about sending a perfect video signal from my computer to a VCR, considering native DVD is overkill already. That's a fairly separate issue, from DV having poor compression to begin with along with whatever MPEG2 settings you are using for your DVD. I can see the degradation when I record peoples' miniDVs to DVDs.