DVD authoring - progressive scan?

I downloaded and installed the trial version of Nero2015, but there doesn't seem to be any place in it for setting progressive scan. Any other ideas?
 
There is some freeware that will do this, but I can't remember the names right now.

Sony has some lesser expensive products that should do this too.

All that said, you might be limited to 24fps for progressive, I can't remember if DVD supports 30p or 25p
 
Well I downloaded the trial version of DVD Architect Pro 6.0. It appears to have an option to change the Video 1 setting to 'progressive', but apparently that's for background video. The Video 2 option -- which must be the media itself -- has progressive set to 'auto', but there's no ability to change it. So I don't know if it's burning a progressive DVD or not.

The Studio versions of DVD Architect don't seem to have even that much control of 'progressive'.

Update: I stand corrected. DVD Architect Studio 5.0 does have those same settings, under the 'Optimize Disc' section. Still don't have any way of knowing if it burns a progressive DVD or not, though. Can only guess.
 
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I've discovered that DVD Architect Studio -- and possibly Pro, haven't checked -- only lets me change the video setting to progressive if the media was rendered in AVCHD. I'm using Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD 11 to edit, and it won't let me change the render template settings or create my own render templates, as far as I can tell. Bummer.
 
sk810 said:
Can you export m2v (mpeg2) and ac3 files out of Vegas?
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Yes, but the render templates in Vegas Movie Studio HD 11 for "NTSC DV" and "NTSC DV Widescreen" are set to render as interlaced, and there is no way to modify them. The "NTSC DV 24p" and "NTSC DV 24p Widescreen" templates render as progressive, but my footage was shot at 30fps progressive. Studio HD 11 does not allow for the creation or modification of render templates.
 
There's always IFOedit that will allow you to Author a DVD (without menu as far as I remember). You simply have to import the encoded audio and video streams into it and it will compile you the disc, that will play directly like a VHS. It's free and not much hard.
I used it to "patch" the IFO files from PAL to NTSC as well.

Other than that, I remember to have played with DVDLab in the past. Not a bad thing.
 
David W. Richardson said:
...the render templates in Vegas Movie Studio HD 11 for "NTSC DV" and "NTSC DV Widescreen" are set to render as interlaced, and there is no way to modify them. ...but my footage was shot at 30fps progressive.
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That's because the DVD specification is for interlaced. DVD is SD, which is 60i (that's 60 fields a second, and interlaced) or 24p. That's all. Your 30p footage will be transcoded as 60i. Flags (in the DVD meta data) will be set to tell the DVD player that the two fields are actually a single progressive frame. Same thing that's done with 24p sources. Shouldn't loose any information, should display just fine. Mine always does. Try it and see.
 
Bruce Watson said:
That's because the DVD specification is for interlaced. DVD is SD, which is 60i (that's 60 fields a second, and interlaced) or 24p. That's all. Your 30p footage will be transcoded as 60i. Flags (in the DVD meta data) will be set to tell the DVD player that the two fields are actually a single progressive frame. Same thing that's done with 24p sources. Shouldn't loose any information, should display just fine. Mine always does. Try it and see.
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I agree. To check your m2v, just open it in Mpeg Streamclip and make sure it's set to "full frame" under the "Window" menu. Then just scrub through and make sure it doesn't look interlaced or have jagged edges.
 
Bruce Watson said:
That's because the DVD specification is for interlaced. DVD is SD, which is 60i (that's 60 fields a second, and interlaced) or 24p. That's all. Your 30p footage will be transcoded as 60i. Flags (in the DVD meta data) will be set to tell the DVD player that the two fields are actually a single progressive frame. Same thing that's done with 24p sources. Shouldn't loose any information, should display just fine. Mine always does. Try it and see.
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If this is the case, then how should I render out my footage shot at 30fps progressive?
 
What Ron said. And to reassure you ... 30P footage encoded and displayed as 60i still LOOKS progressive. Think about it ... The two fields are taken from the same frame, so they both display the same moment in time - hence no visible interlace and the combined fields last 1/30 sec.
 
I guess look at it this way, disks are $0.50 each, burn one and see if you like it. You could also let it covert down to 24fps and burn a second to see which you like best.
 
David W. Richardson said:
Of course. But at 30fps or 24fps? Interlaced or progressive? I want the best DVD image, which probably means giving DVD Architect Studio a file that it doesn't have to recompress.
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30p believe it or not. As I said above, it should transcode into 60i, and set the metadata flags so the DVD player will pull the two 60i fields together into a single 30p frame for the HDTV to display. One more time -- try it and see.
 
You can open the M2V in ReStream to show if it's set to progressive flag. Not necessary though, just do like they stated above and burn it and see if it looks progressive.
 
Bruce Watson said:
30p believe it or not. As I said above, it should transcode into 60i, and set the metadata flags so the DVD player will pull the two 60i fields together into a single 30p frame for the HDTV to display. One more time -- try it and see.
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Vegas Movie Studio HD 11 doesn't have an MPEG-2 NTSC DV Widescreen render template for 30p. The 30fps (29.97) templates render 'lower field first'. The 24p template renders 'progressive'. There is no ability to modify these templates or create custom MPEG-2 templates.
 
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