Source footage is 24p.How do you render framerate?

omar wrote on 6/28/2008, 10:48 PM

When using footage that was shot in 24p from the dvx100 how do you render the file in terms of frame rate in Vegas. Do you render 29.970, 23.976. 23.976 w/pulldown, etc.?

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omar wrote on 6/29/2008, 12:14 AM

Also, if you rendered 24p footage using the 29.970 frame rate to go on dvd, does that mean you lost the 24p look?

farss wrote on 6/29/2008, 3:20 AM

I'm no guru on this however I think the answer is no.
Most TVs cannot display 24p, and the DVD player adds pulldown anyway. The temporal resolution doesn't change and it's very difficult to impossible to make it change if you wanted to. What does change is the refresh rate. You'll loose some of the flicker, thankfully but there's no way you'll make 24p look like something shot 60i.

I thought though Vegas could do the whole 24p thing including authoring a 24p DVD. I'm in PAL land so never had any real need to do this so I'm not much help. Might pay to search the Knowledgebase, I recall there was quite a lot of info back from when the DVX100 first came out and Vegas was the 24p king.

Bob.

rs170a wrote on 6/29/2008, 5:55 AM

Sony has a free white paper titled 24p and Panasonic AG-DVX100 and AJ-SDX900 that will answer all your questions.
There's also David Jimerson's tutorial (note: link is to a 36 MB. zipped file).

Mike

omar wrote on 6/29/2008, 7:17 AM

That's a nice video by David Jimmerson, but he doesn't discuss render settings for 24p. However, according to the white papers I believe you do render 24p footage in the 23.976 frame rate + pulldown as opposed to 29.976 ...