Progressive render for DVD?

[John Rofrano]

> I’m wondering if I could expect the still images on my progressive DVD to have lots of interlace flicker if they get played back on an all-interlaced DVD and TV system ?

I don’t know but even if it did, there is nothing more that can be done so don’t worry about it. Rendering progressive usually fixes it.

~jr

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[Anthony Pamplona]

Hi John, I have been doing a lot of DVd with Vegas and DVD architect but this time I would like to make a progressive DVD and I followed your instructions to make the project properties in Vegas to be 24P widescreen (HD 1080-24p (1920×1080, 23.976 fps) and render it with 24p widescreen. But after I import the file to Architect, its still is showing Progressive: NO

Pls help me if what I did wrong.

My source is from a sony HD Cam
Video: AVCHD 1920 x 1080 60i 29.970 fps

Vegas project properties are
HD 1080 24P (1920×1080, 23.976 fps—- is this the right format?
pixel format: 8 bit
deinterlace method: none

Rendering Properties are
DVD Architect 24p NTSC widescreen video stream

Am I doing this right?

I check the video cam if I can set it up to record 24P NTSC but the only choices are 60i and 60p

Can I do a progressive dvd from this source

I also compared the video between with DVD Architect widescreen video stream 29fps and 24fps, its seems that 24p is jittery on the edges of the subjects in the video specially the one that are moving.

And also on DVD architect project properties there is no choice to make it progressive or not. is this automatically detected by DVD architect if you are using the right video format?

Please HELP

Thank you

[John Rofrano]

[Anthony Pamplona] “Vegas project properties are
…
deinterlace method: none“

This setting is wrong. You need to select Blend Fields which is the default Deinterlace Method. Without this, your interlaced video will look horrible when converted to progressive.

[Anthony Pamplona] “Rendering Properties are
DVD Architect 24p NTSC widescreen video stream”

That’s correct.

[Anthony Pamplona] “I also compared the video between with DVD Architect widescreen video stream 29fps and 24fps, its seems that 24p is jittery on the edges of the subjects in the video specially the one that are moving.”

That’s because you set the deinterlaceds method to none. Don’t do that. Set it to Blend Fields and this will go away.

[Anthony Pamplona] “And also on DVD architect project properties there is no choice to make it progressive or not. is this automatically detected by DVD architect if you are using the right video format?”

You should be able to set the project for 24p. Are you using DVD Architect Studio? I don’t think that supports 24p.

~jr

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[Anthony Pamplona]

Hi John, Thanks for the quick reply. I was now rendering it again with blend fields as deinterlaced method. So blend fields is for converting intelaced to progessive only? Because Ive been doing a lot of dvd and I always use None as deinterlaced method, this the first time I would like to try making a progressive DVD.

With regards to authoring, Im using DVD Architect Pro 6. I can only find 24p when making a blueray disc but not on DVD. I can only see it in New Project Properties. Where is asking if its menu based….. Disc Format…..Project video format….and project audio format. Is there any other settings where I can change the project video format? Do I have to use Blue-ray Disc as a disc format and burn it as a DVD. Will the dvd players recognized this if I burn a DVD in a blue-ray burner?

to sum up

Video Source: AVCHD 1920 x 1080 60i 29.970 fps…is this OK?

Vegas project properties are
HD 1080 24P (1920×1080, 23.976 fps
pixel format: 8 bit
deinterlace method: BLend Fields
Rendering Properties are

DVD Architect 24p NTSC widescreen video stream

Sorry for all this questions. I have been doing my family videos for yes but my video cam was a panasonic 3ccd DV Tape 4:3 and importing it in Vegas (I been using vegas 7 since 2008 now its Vegas Pro 12 64bit) its DV video. its just now that I editing and authoring from a diff source (AVCHD 1920 x 1080 60i 29.970 fps) I aslo check the setting for my sony HDR CX240, there is no 24P on its video resolution choices only 60i and 60P. Do I have to set it on 60P to make a progressive DVD?

Thank you So much.

[John Rofrano]

[Anthony Pamplona] “So blend fields is for converting intelaced to progessive only? “

Yes. You could also use Interpolate fields but you would loose half of your vertical resolution so always try Blend first and only use Interpolate if you have a lot of motion that Blend can’t handle.

[Anthony Pamplona] “Because Ive been doing a lot of dvd and I always use None as deinterlaced method”

If your source video is interacted you should NEVER use None as the Deinterlace Method because there are a LOT of reasons to deinterace when processing video that have nothing to do with making progressive DVD’s. You would only select None if your source was progressive.

[Anthony Pamplona] “I can only find 24p when making a blueray disc but not on DVD. I can only see it in New Project Properties. “

The notion of 24p in DVD Architect has nothing to do with the video you add. It only controls the project properties. You can have 60i project and add 24p video and DVD Architect doesn’t care because DVD’s can have multiple formats on them. So setting DVD Architect to 24p only controls the menus and other assets that it creates. It has no affect on the video you add UNLESS you add non-compiant files like AVI file and then it will re-render the AVI files to match the project properties. You may even be able to change this in the Optimize options for each video file (i forget).

[Anthony Pamplona] “Do I have to use Blue-ray Disc as a disc format and burn it as a DVD. Will the dvd players recognized this if I burn a DVD in a blue-ray burner?”

No, you should start a DVD project in DVD Architect.

[Anthony Pamplona] “Video Source: AVCHD 1920 x 1080 60i 29.970 fps…is this OK?”

Why are you making a 24p DVD if your source is 60i? Why not make a 60i DVD?

[Anthony Pamplona] “I aslo check the setting for my sony HDR CX240, there is no 24P on its video resolution choices only 60i and 60P. Do I have to set it on 60P to make a progressive DVD?”

I would use 60i if you are making a DVD. I’m not sure where all this progressive talk is coming from. All of your sources seem to be interlaced and DVD’s are interlaced and TV’s are interlaced so I don’t get the need for progressive?

~jr

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[Anthony Pamplona]

Thank you very much for all this information. thank you for all your help.

I learned a lot today. I hva e to re do all my work since all of it was done without intelaced.

Thanks John

[John Rofrano]

You’re welcome. Now you know that anytime you’re working with interlaced footage you need to have the Deinterlace method set to Blend or Interpolate but never None.

~jr

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