Does 23.xxx FPS give higher picture quality?

[DeadLily]

I suppose this is a newbie question....

If I use Toast 6 to encode to DVD a movie that's 23.whatever FPS, as opposed to 29.97, does that frame rate stay with the movie on the DVD, or does Toast add a 3:2 pulldown before writing it to the disk? I'm assuming that if the movie on the DVD is 23.xxx, that the player does the 3:2 pulldown in playback, and therefore a longer movie could be encoded in the same space, and therefore yield a higher picture quality. If a 3:2 pulldown is added during the encoding, then I guess it makes no difference.

Thanks.

[adam]

If the software is worth a lick, and gives you the option to encode at 23.976fps than yes it would have to add the pulldown flags otherwise it would not be compliant and would not play on most dvd players.

Yes encoding at 23.976fps is much higher quality than at 29.97fps. Even though both are played back at the same framerate, the point is that you only have to physically store ~24 frames each second rather than ~30 which means more bits per pixel and more importantly the ability to encode using progressive frames rather than interlaced fields. With few exceptions, most of the typical software encoders people use are truly horrible when dealing with interlaced footage.