pulldown confusion

[beardo]

ok ive read up on what exactly pulldown is and why it improves quality for ntsc. i have source files of 24, well 23.976, i wish to make them ntsc to play back on my dvd player.

if im using TMPGEnc, do i simply set 29.97 as my frame rate and enable the 3:2 pulldown option. from my tests i end up with 2 files of the same size (in mb) but is the pulldown version higher quality. am i right in thinking that this is the correct method, or do i encode at 23.976 and enable pulldown ?!, im confused Maestro will only import the 29.97 clips anyway, help me my brain hurts.

thanks

[pinoy2201]

set the fram rate to 23.976 and enable the use 3:2 pulldown when playback

[beardo]

when i set the frame rate to 23.976 Maestro refuses to import the clip.

error message
invalid frame rate (0xc1070014)


im going to use EO video to convert qt to avi, virtualdub to convert to 25fps, wavelab to timestretch the audio, then make a pal dvd. ill then have a great looking project (i hope) but still wont know whats worng which is frustrating

[adam]

Make sure you are enabling the 3:2 pulldown while playback option on the video tab, NOT the 3:2 pulldown filter on the advanced tab.

With the pulldown flag in the stream I believe just about any authoring program should view it as 29.97fps even though it is actually encoded at 23.976fps.

[beardo]

yes i am a monkey, hehe, thanks adam and pinnoy, problem solved

(and id just finish batching the video and audio to 25fps lol)