[Rick Hughes]

Thanks …think I can cope with 1% 🙂

[Rick Hughes]

John … accept what you say … I’m lucky I’m not in NTSC part of the world, and my player can any Blu-ray.
Could be worse I could be in France and also have to worry about SECAM 🙂

I read your reply above about doing the project in Blu-ray and then:

“drop the Blu-ray render into that and crop it to PAL Widescreen aspect before rendering to PAL Widescreen. Just open Pan/Crop and right-click the frame and select Match Output Aspect before you render.”

Will that lose me part of the scanned image ?

If so, as the existing Blu-ray project will have all media, transitions etc., is there any other ‘global’ apply-all or script I could use to change Blu-ray to DVD prior to render as DVD format ?

Alternative once Blu-ray disc in created … I could use a ‘Blu-ray-to-DVD‘ program would that give me a better result ?

Just looking to maximise the viewers experience, as there is so much effort going into getting the slides into digital..
Never used the Pan/Crop approach you suggest so simply don’t know the impact to image.

[Rick Hughes]

Thanks for the details ….. interesting your comment on PAL … over last few days been doing lots of Googling and all I have read state there is no PAL or NTSC (or equivalent) in the in Blu-ray standard.

I have never seen PAL or NTSC on any Blu-ray disc I own, only regional coding … which is a different thing.
There is the major frame rate difference though, but that is not the same as calling it NTSC or PAL.

I won’t argue with you though as I am still learning about Blu-ray creation …

[Rick Hughes]

I don’t have Vegas Pro … I have MSP 12 don’t think that makes any difference here.

When I look at PAl widescreen template … 520 x 756 is there but pixel ratio is 1.457

Is there something I have set wrong ?

I intend producing DVD ( and Blu-ray) for widescreen only

[Rick Hughes]

Bob … appreciate the comments you guys have given …. need to try & understand what it means for my project.

Lot of information is on NTSC, I will be using PAL for DVD … I will follow your comment on 2 x resolution.

[Rick Hughes]

Thanks for the detailed comments I need to give this serious thought. When you say aspect ratio is different I would use 16:9 in both cases.

PAL 16:9 for SD video
Not sure what you mean by different aspect ratio, could you explain further ?

For Blu-ray I was basing it on this standards table:

On the last point maybe my wording confused things.
The Blu-ray standard allows for:
“High-definition video may be stored on Blu-ray Discs with up to 1080p resolution (1920×1080 pixels), at up to 60 (59.94) fields or 60 frames per second.”

There is no PAL or NTSC as such
I normally use 1080p 24 fps or 1080p 60fps

I’ll stick to 24fps for this as you rightly point out its stills.

If my understanding is wrong please educate me.

[Rick Hughes]

Guys … I dont have Photoshop but do use Lightroom which I find excellent for getting best out of pictures … does not give masks and all the filters of PS – but I don’t need those.

I will be (as per advice above) creating a DVD and a Bluray disc(s)

Both will be for PAL (not NTSC) … I would hope that if I create a project for Blu-Ray and obviously render as Blu-Ray I can use same project file and also render as using a PAL widescreen DVD template ….. this make sense ?

Failing that I’ll create a Blu-Ray disc and then use Blu-Ray to DVD conversion ……… certainly don’t want to have to do the multiple projects more than once each (around 800 slides)

Be interested in what size you advise I should save image files as ……. they are at moment 4276 x 2984 tiff files.

The Blu-Ray would be standard 1080p resolution (1920×1080 pixels), at 60 fps.
DVD would be standard 720 x 576 (16:9 PAL) 25 fps

[Rick Hughes]

In case it is related I used to use ‘Videomizer 2’ for quick clips tweaking them up for Youtube
Then when many of the clips were arriving as AVCHD .. found Videomizer would fail on about 4 our of 5 clips ….
Would start processing then simply stop ………. after 18 months of promises the application was never fixed – so AVCHD do seem problematic for some applications.

If I tanscode them to another format they were fine.

[Rick Hughes]

I certainly don’t want random effects … a choice of transitions …. I tend to use no more than 3 or 4 on a project.
Pan & zoom would be nice … when I want it, and that’s it.

[Rick Hughes]

I wasn’t trying to be awkward or difficult – hope it diodn’t come across that way ……. never used Vegas for this just trying to understand if I should use ProShow Gold or Stillmotion