Proper DVD frame rate? hyper real and 30fps at DVinfo.net

Jared Gardner · March 27th, 2010, 10:58 AM

I encoded some footage to DVD and turns out, it looks like it's 60fps. I read somewhere that 29.970i is actually somewhere near 60fps. I was thinking that the 29.970 wouldn't look as 'fast'.

What I want to do is encode a DVD where it 'looks' like it's somewhere around 30fps or so. The 60fps looks too much like hyper real to me. How would I go about adjusting the framerate output in Vegas to get it around 30fps or so?

Adam Stanislav · March 27th, 2010, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Jared Gardner

I read somewhere that 29.970i is actually somewhere near 60fps.

It is 30 fps (actually, 30000 frames per 1001 seconds, which comes to roughly 29.97 fps). Each frame consists of two fields, so 30 fps (frames per second) is 60 fields per second.

The letter 'i' means it is interlaced, which is where the two fields per frame come in.

Jared Gardner · March 27th, 2010, 05:08 PM

Hmm... When I export to .wmv using the same frame rate setting, it looks more like the slower film thing. Though when it's exported to DVD with the same frame rate setting, it looks more like hyper real. I'm not sure what's going on.

Mike Kujbida · March 28th, 2010, 08:17 PM

Odds are that the WMV encode is progressive while the MPEG-2 encode is interlaced.

March 27th, 2010, 10:58 AM	#1
Jared Gardner Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Baton Rouge, LA Posts: 48	Proper DVD frame rate? hyper real and 30fps I encoded some footage to DVD and turns out, it looks like it's 60fps. I read somewhere that 29.970i is actually somewhere near 60fps. I was thinking that the 29.970 wouldn't look as 'fast'. What I want to do is encode a DVD where it 'looks' like it's somewhere around 30fps or so. The 60fps looks too much like hyper real to me. How would I go about adjusting the framerate output in Vegas to get it around 30fps or so?

March 27th, 2010, 05:08 PM	#3
Jared Gardner Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Baton Rouge, LA Posts: 48	Hmm... When I export to .wmv using the same frame rate setting, it looks more like the slower film thing. Though when it's exported to DVD with the same frame rate setting, it looks more like hyper real. I'm not sure what's going on.

March 28th, 2010, 08:17 PM	#4
Mike Kujbida Inner Circle Join Date: May 2005 Location: Windsor, ON Canada Posts: 2,770	Odds are that the WMV encode is progressive while the MPEG-2 encode is interlaced.