Editing with 720pn footage

[Tom Brooks]

Ray,
Let’s get back to basics. If you shoot 720pN24 on an HVX200, you may use the DVCProHD 720p24 Easy Setup. Log and Transfer will create 23.98 mov files and your sequences will be 23.98.

When you output for DVD, the best way is to export a Quicktime Movie, “same as source”, and then compress that using Compressor. The setting to use is “DVD 90 Minutes Best Quality.” Compressor will automatically encode this in a way that is good for DVD and for DVD Studio Pro. It will make an .m2v file. Choose Dolby Digital Professional 2.0 for the audio. You can make a custom Dolby Digital preset with dialog normalization set to -31dBFS. This will make a file with the .ac3 extension. Those files are brought into DVD Studio Pro as assets and placed in the DVD tracks.

You will have nothing to do with 29.97 in this process, although as John says, you may be able to discover that the encoded m2v file is indeed 29.97. Don’t worry about it.

As far as stuttering, strobing goes, you may have to adjust your shooting style to avoid fast pans.
– Tom

Final Cut Pro 6.0.5, Mac OS-X 10.5.6, Quicktime 7.6, Adobe Prod Prem CS4, G5 Quad 2.5, Kona-LHe V6, 8.5GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7800-GT 256MB, G-RAID 2x1TB FW800, 6TB RAID-5 (Enhance E8-ML, Highpoint 2322), Panasonic HVX-200P P2. Also MBP 17″ Core 2 Duo 2.5, 4GB, GeForce 8600M GT 512MB.

[Ray Stark]

Tom, thanks for the great, straightforward info.