Render as?

mdslammer

mdslammer

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I shot my student film with my DVX100A at 24P. I rendered it using the "Default Template".

There are several other options available.

i.e. NTSC DV, NTSC DV Widescreen, NTSC DV 24P (inserting 2-3 pulldown),
NTSC DV 24P Widescreen (2-3 pulldown), NTSC DV 24P (inserting 2-3-3-2 pulldown)
and NTSC DV 24P Widescreen 24P (2-3-3-2 pulldown).

What is recommended to get the best results considering I shot at 24P?

Thanks.

Mark Dalzell / AudioScapes
Las Vegas, NV
 
Unless you have to, don't render out with the DV codec again. If you are going to DVD, use one of the DVD architect 24 defaults. If you are going for anything else, use DivX at a very high setting, or Quicktimes h.264. Just don't go back to DV.
 
mdslammer said:
Final Destination is both DVD and Web.
Shot 24P.
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If you edited on a 24p timeline, select the DVD Architect 24p template listed under MPEG2 for your DVD render.
 
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BennisHahn said:
Why?
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Any additional graphics added, any color tweaks, and changes or additions at all really, will all get squished back into the 4.1.1 sampling scheme, and DV has notorious artifacts and image degradation after just two generations.

I have read that unless you apply transitions or effects, you can encode, decode, and re-encode without loss of quality. I’ve found that to be the case, but sometimes even without doing anything signifigant to the footage, noticeable, additional .jpg-like artifacts are there even after re-rendering out only once.

I always play it safe and either render as a lossless codec, with something like Divx for general viewing (at higher quality settings, artifacts are considerably less at comparable file sizes, and without getting slammed back into 4.1.1), or render straight to mpg from Vegas for DVD creation.

I create a lot of still graphics, motion graphics, and other such from Photoshop, and as such, they are 4.4.4. Applying the DV codec strips that. And Microsoft’s DV codec just sucks.

Plus, since you can render from Vegas to just about any format you need for any purpose, there’s no reason to fool with the DV codec.
 
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