Thanks farss, I'm just not sure how to add the pulldown. I've tried the 24p Blu-ray mpeg-2 23.976 + 2-3 pulldown template but it gives me a 23.976 file.

When rendering from 24p to 60i is Vegas adding pulldown?

My understanding is that if you encode to mpeg-2 for a DVD from 24p then the DVD does contain only 24p. A flag is set that tells the playout device to add pulldown to get 60i. This is a very efficient scheme but not what you want.

If you simply were to convert 24p to 60i Vegas will resample and nothing will be easily able to undo that easily if at all. Many TVs are capable of pulldown removal or so they claim. This is also not the road you'd want to go down

A quick search of the online help using the word "pulldown" reveals that Vegas can add pulldown. I think this is the way to proceed. Force Vegas to convert from 24p to 60i by adding pulldown then encode that to mpeg-2 as vanilla 60i. You may need to render an intermediate 60i file to do this as I cannot see a way at the project level to select pulldown so that you could use nesting to get this done.
You should also consider which kind of pulldown would best suit. I think the traditional 2-3 pulldown rather than the "Advanced" 2-3-3-2 pulldown would be best as it gives less judder.

Bob.

"24p" in NTSC land is 23.976p (or 24*1000/1001 to be exact), which with pulldown becomes 29.97i (aka 60i, confused yet? If not, see the pulldown terminology next).

The right pulldown for what you want to do is indeed 2-3 pulldown, usually referred to as "3:2 pulldown."

Do NOT use Advanced pulldown, that is not good for viewing (it was created to allow editing in systems that couldn't handle 24p natively).

As I'm not in NTSC land one thing I find confusing as I've never had to deal with it is this "23.976" thing. I've seen it referenced as exactly 23.976 and at other times as "23.970".
Given that someone has given the value to 3 decimal places I have to ask, are they simply wrong or is there two different standards used i.e. 23.976 and 23.970?

Bob.

From Wikipedia:

Many 24p productions, especially those that are made only for TV and video distribution, actually have a frame rate of 24 * 29.97 / 30 frame/s, or 23.976frame/s (24/1.001 to be exact). Many use the term "24p" as a shorthand for this frame rate, since "23.976" does not roll off the tongue as easily. This is because the "30frame/s" framerate of NTSC is actually 30/100.1%, also referred to as 29.97frame/s – this framerate is matched when video at 23.976frame/s has a 3:2 pulldown applied. Similarly, 60i is shorthand for 60/100.1% fields per second.

Mike