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30p to interlaced DVD
Hi, I made some titles and color corrected some footage in AE.
AE seems to export only as progressive. Now I have 30p footage to work with in Premiere Pro.
(1) If I edit in a 30p project and export as 30p to DVD, it played funny (skipping) on a friend’s TV (but fine on my flat screen).
(2) If I edit in a NTSC project and export as interlaced… the titles have a “combing” effect on the letters when viewed in Encore.
Not sure what my best option is here?
ANY suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Marc
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3 Replies
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#2 will look more normal once it’s played on an interlaced display (TV). It’s transcoded to that on the disc whether or not it’s brought into Encore to begin with.
#1 is a bit more tricky. Try playing it in a few different DVD payers if you can. Some consumer DVD players (the older/cheaper ones) really don’t behave well with DVD-R or DVD+R media. Also, if memory serves, DVD-R is more compatible overall. You could also try burning at a slower speed.
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Thanks Angelo,
Will #2 look worse (picture quality) than #1?
Is #1 a DVD player issue, or a TV issue? How will 30p play on older TV’s that can’t play progressive video? (I don’t have any other TV’s to test it on)
Also, I don’t know if you can answer this… but why is it creating “combing” in the first place? I thought that was only something that happens when you deinterlace footage (not vice versa)? It just seems to me that if you take 2 good quality frames and interlace them together, you should still have a good picture. Confusing…
I’m still not sure which version to go with. But if I decide on the 30p version… I’ll definitely try burning at a slower speed.
Thanks again 🙂
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1) It’s most likely a DVD player issue. Progressive content isn’t “DVD Legal”, so your footage is always transcoded as interlaced material. Are you using the same DVD player to test both tvs or two different DVD players? Again, I have to stress that if it is two dvd players, some of them do not play well with burned DVDs.
As a sidenote: Progressive scan DVD players deinterlace DVD content, but they connect to televisions in ways that are incompatible with older analog televisions (HDMI, DVI, etc.)
2) Revisiting this, if you do get a combing effect during playback on a TV, make sure any interlaced step in your process is set to “lower field first”. Again, what I think this is, is Encore’s preview window. Regardless of if your footage is progressive or interlaced, it will look like crap if you’re working on a DVD project in Encore’s preview window, but will look fine on TV.
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