At 06:57 PM 7/26/97 GMT, you wrote:
>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
 
WHAT??? Not on the conversion equiptment I run! It merely uses FSS (Frame
Store Sync.) to convert the signal between the two... The /scan_rate/ is
digitally re-constructed by digitally manipulating and re-formatting the PAL
signal from a PAL machine, thru the converter to an NTSC, etc. The only loss
is picture quality...
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