• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Making a DVD with 24p HDV footage

  Posted by Dan Obrien on June 4, 2010 at 9:20 pm

  Hello all,

  I shot some HDV footage at 24p for a project that needs to make it to an SD DVD, and I’m having some trouble with pulldown, interlacing, etc. Here’s my workflow…

  1. I edited the piece in FCP with the original HDV 24p sequence settings.
  2. I exported an HDV 24p quicktime when I finished
  3. I brought that quicktime into compressor to perform pulldown. My settings are 10bit uncompressed SD anamorphic, 29.97fps, dominance set to bottom field, rate conversion set to “fast”, duration at “100% of source”
  4. I bring the new 10bit uncompressed quicktime back into compressor for conversion to mpeg-2 for DVD Studio Pro

  When I bring the final quicktime into DVD Studio Pro, I get jittering, stuttering, wierd interlacing, etc. Any problem with my workflow? I tried creating a progressive quicktime with better results, but still not as smooth as I would like. Any thoughts?

  Dan

  Dan Obrien replied 15 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Chris Borjis

  June 4, 2010 at 10:22 pm

  yeah extra steps you don’t need to do.

  take the exported 24p HDV file from fcp.

  encode as a 16:9 mpeg2 for DVD, set the frame rate to 23.98
  also make sure the resize filter is on and set for best.

  bring that into dvd studio pro.

  thats all you have to do. dvd players do the pulldown.
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  Dan Obrien

  June 4, 2010 at 11:26 pm

  All that extra work for nuthin! Thanks for the answer… worked like a charm…

  Dan
  Mesh Media LLC
  Maui, Hawaii
  http://www.MeshMediaLLC.com

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