Woops! Accidently used NTSC instead of NTSC film

[shadomic hedgehog]

I encoded a bunch of files with TMPGEnc and am about to burn them with vcdeasy. They had 23.976 fps and i encoded it to NTSC instead of NTSC (film). They were like 22-24 minute episodes. Will there be any big problems? Should i try a cd first and see how the rest go?

[duhmez]

If they are for VCD, 23.976 will be fine. If they are svcd you must now run pulldown on them.

[Gazorgan]

I think you mean this: The source is 23.97 Film, and you encoded to 29.97 NTSC? That's not a problem. You have a little wasted bitrate encoding the extra false fields, but it's no big deal. If the final product looks good then leave it (it tends to have less flicker in my eye than 23.97 with 3:2 poulldown set).

[dphirschler]

I think you'll notice an ugly stuttering effect when you watch the VCD, especially on smooth slow pans. Other than that all you have is a reduction in bitrate available for encoding other data which could manifest itself in your video in action scenes.

If you have the time, re-encode them. You'll not only remove that stuttering effect, but your video will look better too since there will be a 20% improvement in bitrate. High action scenes will have little to no blocking artifacts.


Darryl

[shadomic hedgehog]

ok thanks for the help

[cooljoe666]

Actually, some better advice as stated in many other posts on this board would be to encode everything 23.976 and leave it. Most new DVD players will automatically play it back at 29.97fps if necessary. I found out the quality is not only better but 3:2 pulldown ruins the smoothness. Whether you're making a VCD or a SVCD keep it at 23.976. You can burn it and ignore any compliance warning to see if your standalone will play it..I use a cd-rw disc for testing purposes. If you would rather take everyone else's advice and do a pulldown then do not use pulldown.exe...it sucks....and don't use the GUI that goes to it because that just runs pulldown.exe for you. Use this one instead, it's called DoPulldown 1.0 http://www.woofsoft.com/Downloads/Downloads_GetFile.aspx?id=53

I used it and the results are better than the 'popular' one but it still sucks compared to leaving it alone. Supposedly pulldown only flags the file to signal a playback at 29.97 but it does a helluva lot more than that to the file. I am not an expert but this is my experience. Good luck.