...a little mixed up concerning Pulldown, film look and DVD render altogether...

FuTz wrote on 4/19/2005, 5:20 AM

I just did color correction to my video so it will be correctly displayed on a TV. Now if I want ot insert the 2-3-3-2 pulldown to my video so I can make a DVD for a TV DVD player and not for computer, are these color corrections ok? Or will I be "tricked" by the player itself?
Are these color corrections I made just efficient in the Print to Tape scenario?

Also: I remember that using DVDA, the files have to be recompressed to mpeg2, right? And I know that if you start from AVI to go to mpeg2, the render time will be faster. But is it the "uncompressed" AVI file or the "Video for Windows / NTSC DV" file?

Just so I don't lose too much time: my workflow would be, from now (with my 29,97 NTSC Uncompressed AVI file):

-Render again with the 2-3-3-2 pulldown, Best setting
-Render in mpeg 2
-Author in DVDA

AND: how come I lose so much definition with the pulldown ? Because the processing involved to go progressive ?

Comments

B_JM wrote on 4/19/2005, 6:04 AM

what is your source material ?

why are you wanting to go progressive exactly ?

Anyway - render directly to mpeg2 - and no , your color corrections will not be changed much - (mpeg2 does compress color and will cause some change) ..

FuTz wrote on 4/19/2005, 6:07 AM

I go prog to get the "24fps flicker effect", so to say...
Source material: NTSC 29,97 DV

And the colors will be ok according to what I've set ***when viewed on a TV ***?

B_JM wrote on 4/19/2005, 7:59 AM

funny how the film industry wants to get away from the 'flicker" of 24fps and the video industry is trying to look that way ..

on www.vasst.com - there is a tutorial and tools for getting a film look with vegas, plus you can use zenote or the very good built in MB tools/filters