Change NTCS to PAL in setup; problem

[Steffen]

Hi

I am very new to Premier Elements, but have made a (quite large) project in it now.

I love the program, but I have a big problem; when I started a new project I did not change to Pal in the general settings. When I now burn the project to a dvd and choose PAL(and not NTCS), I get these vertical stripes every time the camera moves. First after finishing the project I saw the rendering was sat to NTSC. Just to bee sure that this was the problem maker I took some of my film(that shows these stripes) and made a new dvd, but this time with pal in the setup settings, and the stripes are not there any more.

But I have worked rely long with my project, I will take me several hour’s to make it again – is it possible to change the general settings from ntcs to pal before I burn it(I cant make it!). Or is it possible to import info from the timeline from one project to another(meaning; import the timeline info from the ntsc project to a new pal project)?

Thank you so much for your help!


Andre in Norway
(sorry for my bad english)

[ATR]

I saw your Thread and thought that I would explore your question. I have Premiere Elements 2.0 and am responding based my exploration of that version.

I was not clear on all your details, but I read the question as...I have a NTSC slideshow that I want to be a PAL slideshow and want to avoid having to redo a lot of work.

The best case possibility is that you saved the NTSC slideshow in Premiere Elements. If that is so, then all you have to do is open the save NTSC version. With it on the Timeline, just go forward to the DVD module. In the Burn DVD dialog, check off the PAL setting and continue on to burn the DVD to get your PAL slideshow.

Now for worst case posibilities....My understanding from a recent post, you cannot copy and paste from one project to another in 2.0, but you can in 1.0. Keeping with that, when I tried to copy/paste between projects in 2.0, I could not get it to work.

If you just have a simple group of slides and nothing else on a DVD as DVD-VIDEO (MPEG2)/NTSC, you could get that into the Media Panel by Add Media from Folder going to DVD drive and selecting the VIDEO-TS folder. But, if you try the same thing where there are menus and other things, strange things happen in quality and arrangements. That is where I ended by exploration for now.

ATR