animation files to DVD

rs170a wrote on 1/5/2006, 7:10 AM

I've been asked by our animation department to burn completed student projects to DVD for a showing. If they did the anims at standard NTSC rate, this wouldn't be a problem but they prefer to do their work at 24 fps ( possibly widescreen too).
I know about importing frames as sequences but where do I go from there?
Is it just a case of setting the Vegas (6.0C BTW) properties to the film rate of 24.000 Film (as opposed to 23.97 IVTC) and then rendering that out?
I'm also assuming that the "Allow pulldown removal when opening 24p DV" option in Preferences should be disabled as this is a true 24p project.
Any other gotchas I should be aware of?
Thanks.

Mike

Comments

logiquem wrote on 1/5/2006, 8:44 AM

"Allow pulldown removal when opening 24p DV" is just for 24 P footage recorded in DV 29,97 format, so don't care for this in your project.

You may simply work in 24P in Vegas and do the final render with the DVDA 23,97 progr. mpeg2 template in Vegas (use 9000 CBR if the DVD is under 20 m.) . No problem with that.

fwtep wrote on 1/5/2006, 9:04 AM

This is what I do:

1) Set the project's Properties to: NTSC DV 24p (720x480, 23.976 fps)

2) For each clip on the timeline, right-click on it, choose Properties, and set the Undersample Rate to .999 (one click on the down-arrow there), which slows the video from 24.000 to 23.976. This is completely imperceptible slowdown.

3) Render to regular NTSC (29.976). You might be able to render to 24p (23.976) but when I watch that on my set-top DVD player on my DLP TV, the NTSC version has a smoother cadence. It might just be that my DVD player is very old though, so you might want to do some tests for yourself.

The basic idea here is that slowing the film down from true 24 to 23.976 is imerceptible but allows it to function better on video than going straight from 24 to 29.976.

Fred

rs170a wrote on 1/5/2006, 9:18 AM

Thanks Fred & Bastien for your replies.
I'll do a test render with Fred's suggestion about the Undersample Rate as it's something I never would've thought of trying.
Thanks again.

Mike