progressive DVD from HDV

[John Anderson]

No need to change project to 24p ?
Help, please!

[John Rofrano]

> Do I keep the project settings as is (1440 1080 60i 29.97) and render 720 480 NTSC widescreen 24p ?

Yes, that’s what I would do. You will have very slight black bars on either side (pillarbox) because SD widescreen isn’t truly 16:9 but you won’t notice it on a TV.

~jr

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[John Anderson]

Thanks John!

[Dave Haynie]

It may not be necessary going from HD down to SD, but for top quality frame-rate conversions, SD to SD, I have found the enable 2x or 3x supersampling in Vegas (assuming you have Vegas Pro) dramatically improves the conversion.

I first did this years ago, to do an NTSC to PAL conversion. I had tried demos of all sorts of programs for this, but none did a good job. Though it took over a week (8.5 days) to render the 2 hour video from DV NTSC to DV PAL (then, a 1GHz PC, single CPU), it was well worth it (and proof that Windows could actually go over a week without crashing or asking to reboot..)

-Dave