menus in 24P

[jrp]

Hi

I want to do my menus rendering to 24p. to put them in the dvd should i encode is as 23.971fps or 29.97 with 3:2 pulldown to get the best results?

[adam]

I would render to 23.976fps and encode at that framerate with the 3:2 pulldown flags applied, or I would render to 29.97fps. I don't really think it makes a bit of difference which you do.

If you have to render at 24fps then just encode it at 23.976fps and again, encode at this framerate with 3:2 pulldown flags applied. The slight decrease in speed should be neglible.

Most commercial NTSC disks store the menu's at 29.97fps interlaced.

[jrp]

thanks.

[racer-x]

Adam is correct, make sure you apply Pulldown. If you use MainConcept to encode @ 23.97, it will apply pulldown by default. With other encoders, you may have to do it manually.

Whenever I make animated motion menus, I encode them @ 24p. The same applies to the slideshows/photo montages I create.