We are proud to be the first company in North America to introduce 12-bit standards conversion with 8:8:8 processing and motion correction. Chances are that at any given time one of our high quality standards conversions is being viewed, somewhere in the world. Our engineers are pioneers - with over 20 years of expertise in International Standards Conversion. HD, NTSC, PAL/N/M/BG, SECAM/ME/DK/L - trust only USA Dubs to handle it all.
Our award winning Alchemist Platinum DEFT+ converter produces the cleanest and most detailed master-quality NTSC, PAL and HDTV conversions from your masters. This converter employs a massive amount of computing power to avoid the image quality issues inherent in other standards converters.
Picture smearing, Motion judder and lack of detail never appear in the 12-bit Alchemist Platinum conversions due to the Ph.C motion compensation system. Ph.C tracks all the detail in your images, ensuring that your converted master looks as good as your original. This process works so well that it actually fills-in missing picture detail when upconverting to HD – and it is included in all HD upconversions.
Additional features include Clean Cut processing, full bandwidth image processing, digital noise reduction and 2:3 pulldown removal – all to ensure that your conversions look as truly good as your originals.
Our confidence in the global acceptance of an Alchemist Platinum Ph.c+ conversion allows us to offer a worldwide non-rejection guarantee.
FAQ's for Standards Conversion
USA Dubs’ conversions provide a high quality up & cross conversion to HD video standards, which produces results far superior to other standards converters because it uses several methods of motion compensation and prediction. In addition, it calculates and fills in missing picture detail during up conversion to HD video formats, a capability not found in other HD converters.
HD video generally refers to a higher resolution than standard definition (SD) NTSC or PAL video. HD display resolutions are most commonly presented at the following resolutions: 720p - 1280x720 or 1080i & 1080p – 1920x1080.
“I” stands for Progressive Interlace Scanning”
“P” stands for Progressive Image Scanning”
HDCam is the most commonly used HD tape format at this time. HDCam uses 4:2:2 sampling, 4 audio channels and includes all 1080 line formats (i.e. 60i, 59.94i, 50i, 30Psf, 29.97Psf, 25Psf, 24Psf, 23.98Psf).
HDCam SR offers improved picture quality over standard HDCam. SR offers a choice between 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 sampling, up to 12 audio channels and includes all 1080 line formats in addition to 720 59.94p / 50p.
HDD5 supports the same HD formats as HDCam, with the addition 720/59.94p and up to 8 audio channels. (HDD5 can also be used for SD recording)
DVC Pro HD's sampling is 4:2:2 with 8 audio tracks and includes 1080 line 59.94i/50i and 720p 59.94p.
HDV tapes are essential miniDV tapes recorded in HD. The HD format uses MPEG 2 compression 4:2:0 sampling and stereo audio.
NTSC is the standard used in North America and most of South America. In NTSC, 30 frames are transmitted each second. Each frame is made up of 525 individual scan lines.
PAL is the predominant video standard mostly used overseas. In PAL, 25 frames are transmitted each second. Each frame is made up of 625 individual scan lines.
USA Dubs uses a 12-bit standards conversion with process to convert NTSC to PAL or PAL to NTSC.
