How to progressive render for dvd

[Steven Durbidge]

I should add that my projects are usually slide shows incorporating pan and crop and the horizontal lines eg brickwork, twitter and are distracting. I have a PAL 720p tv and progressive dvd player so interlaced seems a waste of time, but I haven’t found how to make Sony Vegas render as a progressive project. When I click ‘Make Movie’ and rendering starts the project properties in the preview pane always changes to interlaced (from p to i). Why?
Please help. I can’t be the only one!

[Edward Troxel]

If you go to File – Properties, you should be able to change the project to Progressive. You might need to render to DV as progressive and give that to DVD Architect as the “move studio” versions don’t allow access to the “custom” settings in MPEG2.

Other things you can do:
1. Make sure you turn on “Reduce Interlace Flicker”
2. Make sure you render as “Best”
3. Maybe add a very slight blur (.001) to the events

Edward Troxel

[Steven Durbidge]

Edward,
Thanks for your reply. I’m afraid I still cannot see how to render a file as progressive. Which ever project property setting I try (including ‘progressive’) when I then go to ‘render as’ the MPEG2 file is rendered as interlaced (i) according to the preview pane!

Thanks for your other suggestions. I haven’t tried adding blur yet – it seems a backward step in photography somehow…

[Terry Esslinger]

Edward – Happy New Year!

I’ve never had this question answered to where I understand it. Probably a malfunction at my end.

Does it matter what kind of “TV” you are renderering for? A lot of comments are made that use interlaced for TV and progressive for computer monitors. But are not TVs becoming more like computer monitors? Does it matter if your final project is going to be viewed on a CRT tv or on an LCD or plasma tv? Do you render differently. What if you do not know and all you know is that it is for TV viewing?

Thanks for all the time you give to this and many other forums.