Have a Kodak Playtouch video camera, UK version set to PAL recording format, i record at 720p 60fps or 1080i 30fps

That setting of the camera is NTSC. PAL would be 25 fps or 50 fps.

PD9 is telling you the video from the camera is NTSC. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Thanks for the reply, just to confirm:

Kodak Playtouch = set to PAL
PD9 = set to PAL


I get the error when I go to edit the video that it is in NTSC

Read my post again, I edited the post. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Thanks

Sounds like I need to speak to Kodak

There is a common misconception that, for many cameras, the camera setting PAL or NTSC relates to recording. Mostly it doesn't, it relates to playback through the AV output or whatever.

Your camera records as follows (from the Kodak site) :
1080p—1920 x 1080, 30 fps
720p / 60 fps—1280 x 720, 60 fps
720p—1280 x 720, 30 fps
WVGA—848 x 480, 30 fps

All of which are NTSC.

You should set your project to NTSC to avoid PD "converting" your files. You can choose your output format at the produce stage.

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Adrian

Many thanks for the reply, I was just reading the manual cover-to-cover and was starting to wonder the exact thing you just said (that the PAL/NTSC thing is for playback output)

So if I understand correctly, in PD9 I set "NTSC" in General Preferences, and then when I get to Produce, I select "PAL"?


Many thanks for your help

If you really require the PAL format for playback. Be aware that frame conversion from 30fps to 25fps may affect the perceived quality in some circumstances.

For many purposes (but not all by any means) the PAL/NTSC debate may be a bit redundant so it might be best to either experiment or check if you really need to produce to PAL.

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Thanks

All video will highly likely be staying on a computer but may be output to a television from the computer using an HDMI cable.

Interesting about the fps, what about when I am recording in 720p @ 60fps? Will that be reduced to 25/30fps when it is produced?

I think most televisions these days will figure out the format won't they?

There is little documented information available from Cyberlink. However, there are only 2 basic timeline formats available in PD - NTSC 30fps or PAL 25 fps. Technically there are 2 NTSC timelines available to take account of the difference between 30 fps and 29.97 fps, but leave that aside.

Hence a 60fps clip will still appear as 30 fps or 25 fps on the timeline. All edits are therefore done and previewed at these frame rates.

However, I am unaware of exactly how PD then implements the edit instructions generated by the project onto the original source files. I cannot say, never have done the necessary detailed experiments, how a 60fps source file is converted to 25 or 30fps, or retained at 60fps, if that is the file format and profile that is chosen. There are several file formats available for production, most with several profiles within them. In addition, some formats allow customised profiles to be constructed and used.

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