Architect 4.5 Render Frame Rate

roz_85 wrote on 7/6/2009, 3:40 AM
Hi. I'm having some dramas when i get to putting my video onto a disc.
I've made a menu, it all works, and then when I got to render it to disc, I have 1 choice of frame rate - 25.

This is of course no good to me, as being in Australia, we use 24fps.. (as far as I know).

I've recorded and edited the video (hr and a half long) and exported it at 24fps. If I export it at a higher frame rate, it plays like crap, very jumpy. So, when I render it to disc now at 25fps I have one blurry frame every second which is incredibly annoying, especially since people have paid for the video. (I've made it for someone else, an instructional DVD)

Does anyone know what I can do about this? Re-shooting isn't really an option, surely a program bought in Australia MUST have to be compatible with australian standard settings?
(or am I just doing something wrong?

Thanks..

Comments

TOG62 wrote on 7/6/2009, 4:01 AM
I think you should export your video at 25 fps, which is standard for PAL DVDs.

Mike
John_Cline wrote on 7/6/2009, 4:49 AM
Yes, the standard frame rate for video in Australia is 25 fps.
darkframe wrote on 7/6/2009, 5:03 AM
Hi,

I'm afraid that TOG62 (edit: and John ;) ) are right. PAL DVDs require 25fps. 24fps can be used for Blu-Ray (1080p/24p) but not even the much more expensive Adobe Encore is supporting it.

Cheers

darkframe
roz_85 wrote on 7/6/2009, 5:06 AM
Ok thanks, I'll give it another go - I just had really jumpy videos when I did that the first time..

I have another question - I've just bought a new camera, it's a sony dcr-sx40 - nothing flash, but it'll have to do..

When i record/playback a video on the camera itself, no probs.
When I copy the video off the camera and paste it onto my computer (exactly the same way I've been doing it with the last Sony camera), I get no audio..
Again, am I doing something wrong here?

Even when I play the video on my computer directly from the camera, there is no sound.. I cant see anything in the camera which could be causing this.. Then again, I'm not really sure what it is I would be looking for ??
MPM wrote on 7/6/2009, 2:17 PM
FWIW, & living in NA could be completely wrong, but everything I've read says bump the 24 fps to 25 -- the difference isn't enough to notice. In fact you could even give it a try changing the tags in restream or similar without a re-encode. In the US a lot of folks used to use PAL cameras to get a cheap 24 fps by just setting their footage to 24 instead of 25 in their NLE. DGPulldown has a special mode or something that's supposed to work well bumping 24 to 25 also, assuming I remember correctly.

Far as transferring video to your PC, the camera's spec page on the Sony site says it records mpg2 -- should just be a matter of copying the mpg2 files from memory stick if nothing else [an app called fastcopy can often make copies to/from sticks faster]. Mediainfo will tell you what the audio is, & if it's there -- then make sure you have a working codec installed to match.