PAL DVDs from hell

Greggus1 · Post by **Greggus1** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:56 pm

PAL DVDs. Interlaced footage. Mac. No Final Cut. Doomed?

Is good quality possible to achieve, and if so, how? Thank you.

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:00 am

Dude AVISYNTH to the rescue. Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a> will get you stared anyway
I'm (unfortunately) living in PAL land... didn't think you were too but eh shows what i know.
vdub is supposed to have a smart deinterlacer built into it... I don't have it but I'm sure there's a link for the plugin somewhere (someone gave it to me)... I prefer to deinterlace using avisynth anyway since it gives me more control over the different functions.

Now I don't have a mac, so can you use vdub/avisynth on a mac?

Greggus1 · Post by **Greggus1** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:45 am

you can't, or I wouldn't be sad

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:38 am

As it was pointed out in an earlier thread that Darwine isn't ready/capable of running VDubMod or AviSynth yet, then the only thing I would suggest in regards to those programs is something that truly emulates Windows, probably by virtue of VirtualPC (does VMWare work on OS X? If so, that's a possibility too). Of course, that actually requires having access to (and a license to use) Windows itself.

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:20 pm

Greggus1 wrote:you can't, or I wouldn't be sad

awww that's crappy.

glad I don't have a mac then

xilisoft platnium has a deinterlace function built into it, i think you can get a mac version it rips with pretty good quality too.

elvirasweeney · Post by **elvirasweeney** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:56 am

You haven't seen this site yet? http://www.ishtori.net/

It's a wonderful guide!

There is a program DVDxDV which will do the reverse telecine. Another great program is http://www.squared5.com

I know some people who edit PAL footage with iMovie, with great results. (I also use PAL, with Final Cut.)

niko1986 · Post by **niko1986** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:13 pm

Doesn't Bootcamp let you dual boot windows on a mac?

Unless ofc you don't have an intel mac or don't want to dirty you clean white mac with windows