How to do a 25 fps PAL DVD export from Premiere Pro with 24 fps source?

[Tobias Andersen]

Perhaps it’s actually better to export the avi at the target resolution (since it’s PAL it’s 720*576 and a aspect ratio of 1,458) – previously I’ve had to crop 14 pixels from top and bottom from my source in 1920*1080, because I was getting vertical black bars on the sides.

Perhaps I don’t have to do the cropping when exporting the avi prior to making the MPEG2 DVD export?

Conrad: I don’t seem to have that option of 24 fps when exporting – and I think it may be safer to do 25 fps anyways?

[Conrad Olson]

Just had a quick Google. You can add 24fps footage to a DVD I know this is from Apple DVD Studio Pro but it is talking about the DVD specification:
https://documentation.apple.com/en/dvdstudiopro/usermanual/index.html#chapter=4%26section=3%26tasks=true

I would just take the encoding preset that you are using and change the frame rate to “same as source” or explicitly 24fps.

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[Ivan Myles]

It is my understanding that the footage doesn’t need to be cropped because only the center 702 pixels will be used to produce the PAL image; the black bars are ignored during playback.

Here are the settings to export using AVI-None:

Width: 702
Height: 576
Aspect: D1/DV PAL Widescreen 16:9 (1.4587)

A width of 720 can be used, if desired–it will just create a slightly larger file with black bars on either side.

Once the new file is rendered, import it to a 25fps 720×576 D1/DV PAL Widescreen sequence. The other 1080p footage added to the timeline will need to be scaled to 53.3% (or 53.4% if rounding up).