PAL and NTSC

What Is film PAL or NTSC. How do you convert NTSC to PAL without too much quality loss?

Thanx

Christoph Vonrhein Wrote:
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> PAL is 720 x 576 pixels at 50 frames per sec.
> interlaced
> NTSC is 720 x 486 pixels at 60 frames per sec.
> interlaced
>
> Technically there is unfortunately no lossless way
> to convert from one format to another.
>
> Converting from PAL to NTSC is better for the
> overall image quality (sharpness), because PAL has
> a higher resolution.
> Converting from NTSC to PAL leaves you with a bit
> more blurry picture, because of the lower vertical
> resolution.
>
> The tricky part is always the conversion between
> the framerates.
>
> There are some conversion plugins for FCP, but
> they all do nothing more than to interpolate
> between the frames. IMHO I think that FCP's
> Optical Flow does the best job, because it
> calculates new frames.

Totally agree.

Cheers
Alexander