Pseudo movie look encoding

chrisgrand wrote on 9/20/2006, 4:03 PM

To get a more documentary feel to some interview sequences, I took my 29.97 project timeline and rendered directly to mpeg2 24p (3-2 pulldown). I bypassed the intermediate step of rendering all events to 24p, changing the project to 24p, then importing and editing, doing transitions, etc. It looks good on DVD, a little soft on focus, especially on text, but decent. My question is, would there be much difference in sharpness if I rendered from the timeline as an .avi (letting Vegas do the 24p pulldown to the .avi) first, then as 29.97 in mpeg2 instead?

The only difference would be doing the pulldown going to .avi instead of doing it in the main concept mpeg encoding.

Maybe I am just really confused?

I just want to get decent results from the 29.97 timeline with all transitions in place going to 24 via pulldown.

Thanks for any and all responses!

Comments

chrisgrand wrote on 9/21/2006, 11:27 AM

I actually did the Main Concept DVDA NTSC 24P template with coeff changed to 10, CBR 8,000,000. Looks great. A little soft and nice cadence.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/21/2006, 12:24 PM

If you don’t want to convert your events to 24p at least create a 24p project and add the 29.97 footage to it. Then when you make any transitions or generated text media, Vegas will do that in 24p. This will keep your text from being 29.97, then rendered to 24p, then having pulldown added to bring them back to 29.97. (i.e., you eliminate one conversion). So everything in your project will be 24p sources except your footage.

~jr