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Winner
03-05-2008, 05:01 AM
Hello,

I recently edited together an animation demo reel that I created 100% for internet playback. All the maya scenes are animated at 30fps ( yep.. im in games ).

I rendered all the frames at half 720p, so 640 x 360

I have the edit in Premiere Pro, set to 30fps, with frames rendered as single TGA files, and I have the full audio mix sequenced and working at this frame rate.

now of course... a little unexpectedly....I have a studio that wants to see all work submitted on NTSC DVD... ;)

my question is this:

If I have all this in Premiere at 30fps... what will happen to the sync of my audio mix when I try and burn this to a DVD ? and what will happen to the slight difference in frame rate ? will the dvd burner simply slow down the audio to make it fit, and drop a frame every now and again to compensate for the fps ? ( i ideally would like to just use Premiere's "export to DVD" functionality to do all the burning and conversion )

I understand I will most likely need to re-render my frames at 720 x 480... I am not too bothered about re-rendering ( although I would still like to keep all animations rendered out at 30fps )

Rickmeister
03-05-2008, 09:21 AM
The best, ofcourse, is to render it native. But programs like Premiere are smart enough to change te framerate without the audio track to change. I'm not sure wich configuration it is... but it can be done.

Why don't you try some setups and see what happens?

Winner
03-05-2008, 05:35 PM
thanks for the reply Rick...

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean by "render it native" ..

Yeah, I guess I just need to burn a bunch of DVDs with a test sequence and see what happens

scrimski
03-05-2008, 06:43 PM
render it native= render to NTSC settings considering both resolution and framerate(and correct field interlacing, if you need it), not one without the other or in another resolution and scaling up or down.

Not sure abot the exact resolution since I'm in PAL land here, have a look in the wiki or in your premiere import presets, should be explained there.

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