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Chienworks wrote on 7/20/2010, 7:15 AM
They're not really NTSC or PAL. NTSC is 720x486 59.94i and PAL is 720x576 50i. What you are dealing with is HD at two different frame rates. The simplest solution is merely to choose the frame rate you want when rendering. Vegas will blend frames together as necessary to smooth out movement.

You may find that this produces some ghosting. You can try disabling resampling and see how that looks. There won't be any ghosting, but Vegas will end up dropping one frame out of every 6 to match the slower frame rate and this can lead to a slight jerky motion. Personally i prefer the slight, nearly invisible jerkiness to ghosting, but that's just my personal preference. Try it both ways and see which you like best.
L8R wrote on 7/20/2010, 7:20 AM
Hey Chienworks,

I am going to be doing a project today that was shot in 1440x1080 60i... The couple has asked for pal copies as well. I was just hoping to take my files I rendered out for the ntsc disc and just burn the disc in pal instead.

Would this give me undesirable results or will it just have the same "ghosting" as doing it the other way?

Would you suggest I do it the long way of rendering each file again for pal or do you think I could get away with doing it like this?
Chienworks wrote on 7/20/2010, 7:54 AM
Probably the best result you'll get is by creating standard NTSC DVDs and sending those. The chances are really good that their PAL player will read the NTSC disc and convert it on the fly, and probably do a much better job of it than Vegas will.

That being said, if you want to be safe and produce a PAL version you'll be better off rendering to PAL in Vegas instead of letting DVDA cross-covert an already rendered file.

And yes, you'll still have the ghosting issues so i suggest you try rendering a small snippet (preferably a section with some motion) both with and without resampling to see which you like better.
johnwhy wrote on 7/20/2010, 1:07 PM
thanks for the answer but do I set the project as ntsc framerates then render to pal?
Chienworks wrote on 7/20/2010, 8:13 PM
Well, once again NTSC & PAL are meaningless when working with HD. The only difference is frame rate. I tend to set my project properties to match what i'm going to render to. Others tend to set it to match the source. In the end though it doesn't really make much difference. It's the render settings that control what you get. So ... render to HD 50i and you're done.