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Thanks all for the help. My progressive DVD render looks great on the two TVs I’ve tried it on. One more question… from what I’ve read, some DVD players are interlaced, and some are progressive. Same with TVs. I’m not sure what kind of players I tried them on, but 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 ?

Jaxon

Vegas 7 Pro

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ah, now i see it is because i turned on the reduce interlace flicker option in DVDA. since my project is all still photos, i thought this might help. perhaps it is not necessary since my Vegas render is 24p progressive?

the one thing i changed in the Vegas render was changing the CBR to 8,000,000 as another poster recommended. would this have caused DVDA to need a re-render also?

thanks for all the advice.

Jaxon

Vegas 7 Pro

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In DVDA, it tells me that my video will be recompressed. I would think this is not necessary if it was rendered out of Vegas correctly? I rendered as NTSC widescreen 24p, a .mpg file. Is it normal for the project to then be recompressed in DVDA? It’s only 9 minutes long.

Jaxon

Vegas 7 Pro

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will a 24p DVD play back on “ordinary” DVD players and TVs ?

Jaxon

Vegas 7 Pro

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Thanks, but I do not believe this applies to my problem. My jpg images are only 1600×1200. They look fantastic when I render progressive (or render to WMV, which is perhaps natively progressive?). But the strobing/flicker/horizontal lines type of effect is very present when rendering NTSC DVD stream with interlace. So, regarding my original question, what happens if I burn a DVD for playback on TVs using an MPEG format that was rendered in the NTSC widescreen DVD stream, but with interlace set to None?

Jaxon

Vegas 7 Pro

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OK, I have finished my cut. The project is in HD 1280×720. I would like to know how to render this for widescreen DVD. I assume that I will have to work with the pixel aspect ratio, but honestly this stuff kinda confused me. If I render as regular NTSC DVD, I get a 640×480 image that is letterboxed. I would like DVD players to recognize this as true widescreen, so I can avoid having it playback letterboxed inside a 1.33 frame. How do I best accomplish this?

Thanks much for assistance.

Jaxon

Vegas 7 Pro

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No, I am investigating this issue before I begin so I know the best project settings to start the cut. It was my understanding that it is best to start with ideal project settings, rather than change them later after you’ve begun editing. I’m not sure why this is, but hence my question. Since there are two different renders here, I am confused by the best overall project settings.

Jaxon

Vegas 7 Pro

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what would be the best initial project settings for this? What I’m confused by is the difference in aspect ratios between the two formats. If you render 16X9 for HD video at Vimeo, but the DVD is rendered in 1.33 letterbox (right?), then does the HD widescreen render automatically chop off the top and bottom of the frame to create the aspect ratio?

Jaxon

Vegas 7 Pro

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Is there a way to check if a particular piece of footage is already progressive or not?

Jaxon

Vegas 7 Pro

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That’s incredibly useful info about Track Motion, and I’m quite glad I asked what I thought was a silly question! Thanks for your help.

Jaxon