[Daniel Ludwig]

Niclas,
if you need to create a PAL SD DVD the most easy way would be 1080i25 or maybe 1080p25.

keep in mind that 1080i25 is upper first – PAL SD could be upper AND lower field, depending on your video-codec, so you need to choose one that fits with the source-dominance (upper first) like APPLE PRO RES – never use any DV-Codec, as they are lower first – you´ll get a field-shift-error.

to create propper PAL SD from 720p50 you have to do a bunch of work, depending on your editing-system – this makes no sence at all.

IF you need to create video for the internet it´s even more simple to deinterlace a video than to reinterlace for DVD/broadcast.

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Sorry Mate,
this is a BIG workflow-issue!

p50 is a real bad input for optical media + broadcasting within 25fps-land.

you can start trying to reinterlace your 720p50-film to 1080i25, but this is a real big mess.

PAL SD DVD is 25fps only!

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hey Paul,
toast is worth the price and a very good application. never had any issue.

using toast since version 6 (long time ago).

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

AND:
if you need to put multiple clips into one timeline/sequenz within encore, you should create ONE longer timeine/sequenz within an editing-system containing all your video prior authoring.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Charles,
if you wont go away from 720p30, you still will have problems.

ok, let me do a short overview – you´ve got 4 different footages:

1. 1080p30
2. 720p30
3. NTSC SD 29.98i
4. 8mm film (which is 23.98 normally – it might have created in another framerate)

so the very first thing you need to do is to bring it into 1 (one) single framerate.

these are editing-basics with mixed footage:

1. create a single 1080i30-sequenz (use XDCAM HD 422-setting for this)
2. copy all your stuff from your older sequenz into the new one

all clips that wont match the sequenz-timebase (which is 29.98) needs to be changed. premiere has nice feature for this – within the contexual menu.

you need to do a right-click on the footage, then modify>interprete footage as. a new window will open – then you can set your framerate to 29,97.

also keep track of your field-order!

your sequenz 1080i30 has upper first whils NTSC SD has lower first, so your SD-NTSC-material needs to have a filter on it to turn arround the field-order, otherwise you´ll get jurky videos.

to do so – select the clip on the timeline>right-klick>field-options>reverse field order

accoding to your 23.98fps-clips: if you are using the interprete-footage-option your clip will get shorter, as you speeding it up, so you need to use the time-tool to bring it back to the original duration. – this is (in deed) the “quick-and-dirty-workflow!!

normally you need to do a real cross-coversion 23.98>29.98 using plugins like twixtor (which could generate new frames) or similar and convert the entire matieral using after effects.

after all that work you need to scale-up all your clips that wont fit the 1920×1080, meaning your 720p and NTSC SD-material.

when all your editing is done – you are exporting your entire video into ONE single file.

this one would be encoded using adobe media encoder (h264-blu-ray-setting 29.98) and then you can start author your blu-ray.

you see – there´s a lot to do and the way you worked shows me, that you are not familiar with basic workflows of editing.

secondly: how could you start doing a project like this with a tight deadline when you couldn´t do the basics!?

good luck

danny

EDIT: be awared that you are using highly compressed footage from the DSLR-cam, which could result in blocking artefacts when re-encoding for blu-ray and/or using heavy color-correction-processes!!

[Daniel Ludwig]

Charles,
forget about dynamic linking – you need to export your video as selfcontained movie (AVI or MOV) depending if your on mac or pc.

once again my question: what is your sequenz-setting?

you´ve edited your 1080p30 in a 720p30-timeline? or whatever?! frame-blending makes absolutly NO sence.

that pro that adviced you seams to be an idiot – or you might have asked the wrong questions!

my 2ct

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Charles,
it´s called blu-ray! without E

😉

[Daniel Ludwig]

Charles,
again – workflow-issue!

there are plenty of tutorials on youtube how to prepare a DVD/BD within encore.

you don´t need to split your video – you need to have ONE complete timeline/file containing all your video, don´t create single items and put them all in the encore-timeline!

if you´re editing within FCP – you need to create one sequenz with your complete video.

encode it using adobe media encoder or any other encoder prior authoring.

if you edited within 720p30 – the most easy way to go is to upscale your video to 1080 and encode it to 1080i30.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Sorry Charles,
your workflow is badly out of BD-ways.

you´ve never thought about BD-specs and the necessary workflow.

here is what BD-spec allows:

1080p23.98, 1080p24, 1080i60, 720p60, 720×480 – NTSC SD

think before you start working!

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Adam,
I´ve never seen any problems with BD50 on newer players – there were a problem with very old players (1st gen), but they are rare these days.

burning a BD-50 you don´t need to take care about the layerbreak-position as BD is less complicated than DVD. the layerbreak-position is seamless while DVD have a non seamless layerbreak-position.

danny