I know I've asked some questions about this in the past, but I wanted to make sure about this before I made this DVD and sent it out to pal land festivals. I've found that Vegas 6 does an excellent job making 25p MPEG2 files from 24p footage. Looks much better than the 50i or interlaced version Vegas 6 makes from the same material. Since I shot on film and have been editing from a 24p timeline, I'm reluctant to add the interlacing unless it is completely necessary. I could have sworn I read somewhere (but can't find it now) that 25p was fine for pal tvs. Is this really the case? Also, just to double check, I don't need to do anything to the audio, do I?
I know another option is just to make a 24p DVD, but I'm still reluctant to do that because of the sped up audio issue. I know that 24p audio will get sped up 4% b/c the audio will have to run at 25p now. But, shouldn't the speed difference actually be 4.096% as 25p- 23.976p= 1.024 & 1.024 x 4 = 4.096? Anyway, my unproven workaround for this is to add a pitch shift in SF to transposition ratio .96 (actually I could only get it to .95998), selecting a mode like music or speech, selecting preserve duration, then rendering out. My 'test' to simulate what the pal speed up will do is to take the new file and again in SF apply a Pitch Shift with a transposition ratio of 1.04 w/ preserve duration unselected. Seems to fine to me, but if I really trusted it I wouldn't be trying to make 25p DVDs to avoid the whole issue.
Thanks ahead of time for any help!
I know another option is just to make a 24p DVD, but I'm still reluctant to do that because of the sped up audio issue. I know that 24p audio will get sped up 4% b/c the audio will have to run at 25p now. But, shouldn't the speed difference actually be 4.096% as 25p- 23.976p= 1.024 & 1.024 x 4 = 4.096? Anyway, my unproven workaround for this is to add a pitch shift in SF to transposition ratio .96 (actually I could only get it to .95998), selecting a mode like music or speech, selecting preserve duration, then rendering out. My 'test' to simulate what the pal speed up will do is to take the new file and again in SF apply a Pitch Shift with a transposition ratio of 1.04 w/ preserve duration unselected. Seems to fine to me, but if I really trusted it I wouldn't be trying to make 25p DVDs to avoid the whole issue.
Thanks ahead of time for any help!