24p DVD?

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Cheesesailor77

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this is yet ANOTHER 24p vs 24pa question... sry

so i understand the difference (p uses the correct pulldown for viewing on a interlaced tv, pa has an easier to remove pulldown to edit on a 24p timeline), but i thought was that if it was going to be viewed on a TV, it would be best to keep it on P and that the only real reason to remove the pulldown would be if you were going out to film.

but since ive been editing ive had a few times i wish i was editing on a 24p timeline, but im shooting for DVD not film so I thought i needed the pulldown. but now i hear that DVD players well translate the pulldown anyway, so most dvds are actually 24p (I actually went through a few dvds, trying to pause at the right moment to catch the interlaced frame and couldnt find one :) )

so if i want to edit on a 24p timeline, I can shoot 24pa, import, remove the pulldown, edit, export and put it on a dvd and it will play properly?

i think thats my question :)
 
If you're shooting 24p for DVD, shoot 24pa and edit on a 24p timeline.

The only time to ever shoot 24pn is if you either a) aren't the one editing the footage, or b) for some reason you must edit on a 60i timeline.

Other than that, 24pa all the way, all the time, round the clock, and always edit on a 24p timeline.
 
As you said: " shoot 24pa, edit on a 24p timeline" is good way for 24p DVD.
And here is my silly Q: what to do for DVD after "an edit on a 24p timeline". How to render from, render as... what ?
 
From Vegas you can render DVD-compatible MPEG-2 files, import 'em straight into DVD Architect, and master a finished 24P DVD (including 5.1 surround-sound AC-3 soundtrack).
 
Ok, thank you! But one thing I heard from someone: the best way is: render as uncompressed AVI, and then use some additional SW(like Canopus, or CinemaCraft, or TMPGEnc) to encode into MPEG-2. Is it true? or your above described way to do all-in-one is also great?
Sorry, I did not check it by myself yet...
 
Barry_Green said:
24pa all the way, all the time, round the clock, and always edit on a 24p timeline.
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right on!

I shoot in 24pA. edit in 24p timeline in PPro 1.5. Export to MPEG2 at 23.976 (or whatever it is). Throw it in Encore and there you go, 24p DVD.

tada!
 
I actually like the compression that Encore does, better than that of Premiere. This is, of course strange, because I am sure they use the same engine. I generally export uncompressed AVI from Premiere, and let Encore "auto" transcode it.
 
Back to 24pn / 24pa. I've been disapointed with 24pn going to dvd. After I remove pulldown it's great. But what if 1) I go to NTSC broadcast (which I will), and 2) if I mix with 60i footage from 2nd camera (but will convert this footage to 24p with Nattress though)?

I'd really appreciate some straight info on this. I've searched and asked many questions around this, but no aswers seem that simple.
 
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