Damn my Macbook gets hot!…. You may remember I was starting to do some video editing on the Macbook with Finalcut Studio 2…well, that program would take about 12 months to learn, so it was back to iMovie and iDVD. The issue I have is the camera I own is PAL format and I needed to produce smooth NTSC video. JES Deinterlacer to the rescue. This great little program does blended frame rate conversions so the output doesn’t have jerky motion as most programs just insert frames to turn 24 fps to 29.97 fps. So last night was the first test, as the tape is 60 minutes long it took 60 minutes to capture to HDD. Next step was to import into iMovie..pretty easy stuff. Next, use JES Deinterlacer to convert to NTSC format.
- Open JES Deinterlacer 2.7.3 or later. (This method outputs .mov so it can preserve chapters unlike the method below which outputs iMovie’s native .dv format, see below).
- Pane Input, click “Choose…” and select the small reference .mov file from your iMovie v3-4 project folder. In iMovie HD v5 select the iMovie project package’s “/Shared Movies/iDVD/*.mov” as an input.
- Pane Project, Select “Standards conversion” as a Project kind (if “Convert to NTSC” isn’t selected automatically, select it).
- Pane Output, Click on “Put…” and use the default filename (can be renamed in Finder later if necessary), select “Compressor/Direct/DV-NTSC”.
- Pane Output, click on OK and wait.
- Quit JES Deinterlacer.
- Open iDVD. In iDVD’s preferences, set the next project to be NTSC
- Create a new iDVD project.
- Import the JES export from step 1.
- Prepare and burn your iDVD project.
About 1 hour 20 minutes is all it took to convert the 60 minute raw footage into smooth NTSC video so no great overhead in Video Editing terms.
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