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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:
PAL to NTSC transfers
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lang thompson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 26 Jul 1997 18:57:03 GMT
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I've been told that many PAL to NTSC transfers lose three to four
minutes for a feature film because they're not done properly.  The
reason given was that PAL runs at 25 fps and NTSC at 24 but that the
extra frame isn't dropped each second.  Now unless i'm misunderstanding
something (and the person explaining this couldn't elaborate) that
means the films would actually run *longer* in NTSC because the same
number of frames are being shown at a slightly slower rate.  Can
anybody explain what's going on here?
 
Lang Thompson
http://members.aol.com/wlt4/index.htm
 
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