Rendering Progressive

jimingo wrote on 6/26/2006, 7:59 PM

I am making a 60i DVD but DVDA says that in order for best results, to render progressive for the menus. So do I render 60i and change the field order to progressive or do I render to 24p for the menus?

Thanks
-Jim

Comments

ScottW wrote on 6/27/2006, 5:26 AM

If your menus are motion (that is, you're providing a video clip for them), then let DVDA do the rendering for best results. 99% of the time, if you render/encode a motion menu, then DVDA will need to decompress it, and recompress it. I find the best results by feeding DVDA an uncompressed AVI file for my menu backgrounds.

--Scott

kkolbo wrote on 6/27/2006, 7:58 AM

The answer is two-fold. The progressive issue for menus is to prevent some players from incorrectly processing the last frame of your menu. Here is the scoop.

No you do not need to render 24p. Render 30p to match your other stuff. It just needs to be progressive.

If you will only be adding the highlights to your motion menu in DVDA (ie use a menu highlight mask), I prefer to render to MPEG 2 progressive before bringing it into DVDA.. If you are going to add text and buttons etc on top of motion video in DVDA then you will want feed it to DVDA in the best CODEC and format that you can and let DVDA to the MPEG 2 compression because it will have to recompress anything to add the text etc. I like to give it a progressive format video, while not MPEG, for the motion background because I can choose the method of deinterlacing in Vegas while I cannot in DVDA. Yes the method of deinterlacing can make a big difference.