ntsc - pal -hd
KevinRietveld
24 Sep 2010 05:25
Hello all,
i'm still wondering if i can boost sales by converting all my pal footage ton ntsc.
Does it realy work to convert 25fps to 29?
I also wonder if this works the same with HD footage. Are he buyers on pond5 editors who know how to covert hd to pall and/or ntsc? Or should i (we) help them by offering hd-pal-ntsc?
Thanks
Cheers Kevin.
i'm still wondering if i can boost sales by converting all my pal footage ton ntsc.
Does it realy work to convert 25fps to 29?
I also wonder if this works the same with HD footage. Are he buyers on pond5 editors who know how to covert hd to pall and/or ntsc? Or should i (we) help them by offering hd-pal-ntsc?
Thanks
Cheers Kevin.
PiaPoi
24 Sep 2010 13:03
I'm new to this myself and have had fellow Pond5 contributors give me conflicting advice.
What is interesting is that the PAL percentage of sales seems small but last time I looked it is actually a greater percentage of sales than the percentage of PAL clips online.
If for example say 5 percent of clips were in PAL, then if the PAL sales percentage of the total of all formats were say 8 per cent it would mean that PAL clips are selling in a greater proportion than their numerical presence would suggest. It would be misleading to say PAL clips only account for 8 per cent so they're not worth bothering with. A sale is a sale.
I'm going to carry on putting all my stuff in multiple formats. I've set up an engine to do it and it doesn't take long to whack a 1080P through multiple resolution conversions. I do 1080P, 720P, PAL, NTSC, multimedia large and multimedia small. The way I see it is that such a clip is 6 times as likely to get downloaded but time will tell.
What is interesting is that the PAL percentage of sales seems small but last time I looked it is actually a greater percentage of sales than the percentage of PAL clips online.
If for example say 5 percent of clips were in PAL, then if the PAL sales percentage of the total of all formats were say 8 per cent it would mean that PAL clips are selling in a greater proportion than their numerical presence would suggest. It would be misleading to say PAL clips only account for 8 per cent so they're not worth bothering with. A sale is a sale.
I'm going to carry on putting all my stuff in multiple formats. I've set up an engine to do it and it doesn't take long to whack a 1080P through multiple resolution conversions. I do 1080P, 720P, PAL, NTSC, multimedia large and multimedia small. The way I see it is that such a clip is 6 times as likely to get downloaded but time will tell.
jHD
25 Sep 2010 01:33
yes it works and its called telecine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#2:3_pulldown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#2:3_pulldown
DogPhonics
26 Sep 2010 03:37
Don't let the percentages page confuse you. If pond5 offered auto downsizing the numbers would be different - but most contributors only upload as HD. If you can streamline your workflow and upload all your formats at once, template them on the Pond5 backend for catagories, keywords etc, it's worth it. If you offer web format (the larger versions) they will also sell. My sales prove this to me - PAL for some odd reason has sold well. Web formats are spotty - as I only offered small web until recently. I hear, the bigger sizes do better. As Pia Poi says, streamlining workflow is the key. Work all the files together. StreamClip is good for this.