24p on Vegas Movie Studio 8

> Footage was shot with the Panasonic DVX100a, but capture deck is a consumer-level Panasonic miniDV camcorder.

This might be part of your problem. Consumer camcorders don't support 24p, so it's possible that they spit out 60i.
 
Eugenia Loli-Queru said:
> Footage was shot with the Panasonic DVX100a, but capture deck is a consumer-level Panasonic miniDV camcorder.

This might be part of your problem. Consumer camcorders don't support 24p, so it's possible that they spit out 60i.
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Everything I've ever read here or learned elsewhere indicates that it's okay to capture using a consumer camcorder -- that the data that makes it 24p, along with all other data from the camera involving exposure settings and the like, is all digital and will, indeed, remain intact. If that's not the case, I would be very surprised.
 
OK, there is a LOT of confusion in this thread.

You can use a consumer camcorder to capture footage shot with the DVX100 in 24p; the pulldown flags will still be transferred and the full version of Vegas will be able to remove the pulldown.

No version of Vegas captures "in 24p" -- refer to my 24p DV tutorial video sticky at the top the Vegas forum -- it's all captured as 60i and then Vegas removes the pulldown on a 24p timeline.

Vegas Movie Studio, any version, can't do the pulldown removal. Therefore, if you want 24p output of any kind, you need to remove the pulldown with another program. As mentioned above, DVFilm Maker would be fine for this.

You can then create a 24p timeline -- manually -- in Vegas Movie Studio, but then you can't export as 24p in anything other than (apparently) Windows Media -- and Windows Media is not appropriate for either making a quality DVD or transferring to film.

If you want to make a 24p DVD or transfer to film, you will need the full version of Vegas. Using Vegas Movie Studio will simply not be good enough.

(And consider that transfer to film is typically $350/minute.)
 
>Vegas Movie Studio, any version, can't do the pulldown removal.

Vegas Platinum 9 supports pulldown removal from the Sony HDV 24pA cameras. It's written in its release notes. Not sure about other kinds of pulldown removals.
 
Sony cameras don't actually use 24pA; there's a 24A mode, but it's not the same thing at all.

In any case, if that's an improvement in VMS 9, then great. But it still won't remove pulldown from 24p DV from the DVX; that's a separate thing done a different way.
 
David Jimerson said:
OK, there is a LOT of confusion in this thread.

You can use a consumer camcorder to capture footage shot with the DVX100 in 24p; the pulldown flags will still be transferred and the full version of Vegas will be able to remove the pulldown.

No version of Vegas captures "in 24p" -- refer to my 24p DV tutorial video sticky at the top the Vegas forum -- it's all captured as 60i and then Vegas removes the pulldown on a 24p timeline.

Vegas Movie Studio, any version, can't do the pulldown removal. Therefore, if you want 24p output of any kind, you need to remove the pulldown with another program. As mentioned above, DVFilm Maker would be fine for this.

You can then create a 24p timeline -- manually -- in Vegas Movie Studio, but then you can't export as 24p in anything other than (apparently) Windows Media -- and Windows Media is not appropriate for either making a quality DVD or transferring to film.

If you want to make a 24p DVD or transfer to film, you will need the full version of Vegas. Using Vegas Movie Studio will simply not be good enough.

(And consider that transfer to film is typically $350/minute.)
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Got the $129 version of Vegas Pro 8.0a and installed it. Problem solved!

Thanks!
 
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