Hd to SD render problem

mvpvideos2007 wrote on 3/18/2010, 10:01 AM

I shot my first HD footage, 1920 X1080i, edited and rerender it to SD 720x480i, then I rendered it to mpeg2 The footage looks choppy in mpeg2 when burned to dvd. What is the best setting for this, or should I just render the HD to mpeg2 and bypass the avi file? Thanks:)

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mvpvideos2007 wrote on 3/19/2010, 11:27 AM

I'm learning a lot from this guys! Thank you so much for helping. It's a blessing to have you helping out. When it asks which field to choose first, upper, or lower, what should I choose? Thanks:)

John_Cline wrote on 3/19/2010, 11:36 AM

There are a couple of places where upper/lower can be specified, which place are you talking about? Clip properties or render settings?

mvpvideos2007 wrote on 3/19/2010, 11:41 AM

Render setting.

mvpvideos2007 wrote on 3/19/2010, 11:42 AM

The video is shot in 1920 x 1080 60i

John_Cline wrote on 3/19/2010, 11:50 AM

Interlaced HD is almost always upper field first. When rendering SD MPEG2 it doesn't necessarily matter since MPEG2 stores a flag in the header specifying which field order you used when encoding. However, since the source is upper field first then encode it upper field first.

mvpvideos2007 wrote on 3/19/2010, 3:29 PM

Thanks John and everybody who helped!!!!

Aje wrote on 3/20/2010, 4:46 AM

Thanks for all information Laurence
You wrote

"To do this just select the widescreen NTSC DVD Architect template and change the 720 horizontal value to 704."

How about PAL DVD Architect template must I alter the horizontal value here too and in that case to what value?
/Aje

Laurence wrote on 3/20/2010, 9:50 AM

>How about PAL DVD Architect template must I alter the horizontal value here too and in that case to what value?

For PAL it should be 704 x 576.