Changing a PAL image to NTSC

[punkyclown]

A lot of the images that I have an enjoy display in PAL.  This means some programs can display them on an NTSC monitor and some can not.  How do I re-save the image to change it from PAL to NTSC?

Thanks

[Krusher]

You'll have to resize the images in a paint program or imagefx to said ntsc resolutions.

[meega]

You remove a number of lines...

[Zac67]

Actually just dumping a number of lines is yucky - diagonal lines/edges will get really ugly.

The real way is to vertically rescale the whole picture - lose a little sharpness, but keep the edges nice. You can do it with ADPro (can't remember how, sorry) or in Gimp, Photoshop, whatever. Just make sure you use splines, bicubic at best.

[Kin-Hell]

punkyclown wrote:
A lot of the images that I have an enjoy display in PAL.  This means some programs can display them on an NTSC monitor and some can not.  How do I re-save the image to change it from PAL to NTSC?

Thanks

Just fyi, there is no such thing as a "PAL" Image or an "NTSC" image.

PAL & NTSC are different formats of Display. PAL has a 50Hz Frequency & NTSC has a 60Hz Frequency making NTSC a little less flickery.

I guess what you need to do is resize the Images that wont display on your monitor to a size that will (see your monitor Manual) or buy a monitor that will show those pictures in their true glory!

[Krusher]

NTSC has less scanlines then PAL, hence the image size differ. So, there are NTSC and PAL images  :lol:

[Kin-Hell]

Krusher wrote:
NTSC has less scanlines then PAL, hence the image size differ. So, there are NTSC and PAL images  :lol:

It's a bit like the chicken & the egg thing. Which came first?

A lot in life depends on which side of the fence you stand on when you first took grasp of Science!  ;-)