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  • 24pN for SD DVD

    Posted by Ari Grunzeweig on April 7, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    Hi folks,

    I understand that a main advantage to filming in 24p is that you get a better ‘film look’ vs. a video look. Will final output will be DVD (29.97) so will I loose my 24p film look by going to DVD in the end? And am I better off filming in 30p the whole way through?

    Also, are there any other advantages or disadvantages in shooting in 24p vs 30p?

    Thanks so much!

    Michael Sacci replied 16 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Jason Jenkins

    April 7, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    I shoot and edit everything in 24p. It looks great on the web and on DVD. When you encode for DVD, pulldown is added to get to 29.97.

    Jason Jenkins
    Flowmotion Media
    Video production… with style!

  • John Fishback

    April 7, 2010 at 6:00 pm

    I agree with Dave. We do this all the time – shoot 23.976 HD and make SD DVDs. The encoder sets pulldown flags for DVD players. Another advantage of this approach is with only 24 frames per second more data rate can be dedicated to each video frame resulting in better looking DVDs.

    John

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  • Ari Grunzeweig

    April 7, 2010 at 7:30 pm

    That’s awesome guys!! Thanks so much!

  • Jason Jenkins

    April 7, 2010 at 9:06 pm

    [Dave LaRonde] “You can simply shoot 24pn, edit at 24p — aka 23.98, aka 23.976 — and make a 24p DVD.”

    Come to think of it… that’s what I do.

    Jason Jenkins
    Flowmotion Media
    Video production… with style!

  • Michael Sacci

    April 16, 2010 at 9:29 pm

    Just to clarify Jason’s post. Pulldown is added by the player not it is not in the encode, only flags to add the pulldown is in the encode. Other than the look/feel of 24p vs 60i, you get more bang for the buck on your encoding rate, less frames = more bitrate for each remain frame. FWIW

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