Progressive OR Non Progressive, That is the question...

[PimpDaddyDA]

Hey all,

I've captured some of my DVX100AP footage to PPRO, edited it, and was able to burn a DVD from a sequence.

When playing the DVD (in 2 different players for assurity) I noticed that the images were "digital looking." I wasn't getting the smooth lines I saw while playing the original footage thru the camera directly to the T.V.

I captured the footage with the normal presets, and I believe the footage from the camera was shot in Progressive.

I've burned 2 DVD's, one progressive, one non progressive, and am still getting hard lines, and a digital kind of look on my T.V. from both settings burned.

Do I need a progressive DVD player to make it look nice? Are all newer DVD's progressive and my DVD out of date?

Can I turn my DVD's into something that will look nice on any DVD player?

I like the original DVX 24p look I got when we shot the movie, NOW, it looks like a cheap video camera shot the movie.


Awaiting your words of wisdom...

Darryl

[Neil Rowe]

its likely just the tv thats changing the way it looks.. the contrast and color and all probably need to be adjusted. or your monitro you corrected it on does... one or the other . .or both.. but anyway if the footage is progressive and you oputput a progressive DVD .. you wold then need a progressive player amd a progressive TV to wath it progressive. but a progressive player with a standard interlaced Tv should look fine as well.

as far as progressive vs non.. if you shot progressive, you just set everything to the settings you need to keep throughout the project .. progressive.. and 24p-30fps.. whatever.. then you burn to progressive 24p 30 fps dvd and should be fine. if its interlaced you just use 60i NTSC standard everything. i think the main issue your having if the fottage looks essentially different though is that your screens are not calibrated so it will look different from one to the other.. try playing it on something else.

on your PC.. it shoud look the same as it did in editing there.