Re: [FCP-L] Re: Slightly OT: shooting NTSC for PAL conversion

> well, if you know ANYTHING at all about PAL, that assumption should
> be that people like
> the look of progressive material.

Well Tony, unfortunately you seemed to have missed the small detail
that I in fact AM in "PAL-land", even in the one that *invented* the
television for that matter, and have fortunately (near) never had to
deal with NTSC professionally, even during my FILM studies in the U.S.
20 some odd years ago, so I very much know what I'm talking about,
thanks. So that already nonsensical argument doesn't in apply, no
"facts" included, sorry. And if you actually do the math, then you
might notice that, if ANY of the two formats will suffer from stutter
due to deinterlacing, then quite obviously *PAL* more so than
*NTSC*... think about it.

And the "most folk in Europe now watch TV on LCDs or Plasmas" is
utterly soliptic, aside from the fact that I really have no clue as to
what the reason in pointing that out could even be, since an LCD/
Plasma displays interlaced material interlaced also... as well as
stuttering due to completely unnecessary deinterlacing btw.

> quality is subconsciously associated with film and hence 25P

Oh wow... there it is :-D Hate to say I told ya so, but I totally saw
that one coming.

You have never worked with actual film a day in your life or even know
how film recording or, even more so, projection works in comparison,
right? The ol' "Film progressive, therefore video progressive = FILM!"
logic. Since, as we all know, that's of course the only mentionable
difference between the two mediums! ;-D ... that's so... well, we'll
just leave it at that, shall we? I'm not actually up to that old,
painful discussion. Windmills come to mind.

> Guess what their first words were as they
> sat down in the suite? "We need this defielded."

Um, yeah, sure. If you say so. Don't doubt it for a second.
You of course wouldn't want to share who that person was or which
project, right? Only since that was the only thing my friend at the
BBC (known producer/director whom I'll gladly name off-list, where the
rest of this should take place btw, if even) wanted to know when I
sent him this. I won't repeat what he thought of the overall claim. No
point.

But really, Tony, if you and your clients truly believe that reducing
the resolution of your footage by half and making it stutter is a
*good* thing, for nothing but the sake of the ultimate urban myth of
video... all the power to ya.

cheers,
RK

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