I have a complicated question about 24p workflow

[Matthew MD]

Im working on vegas 7 if that is any importance, and my final goal is to get my 24p footage onto dvd.

Now I think I got it figured out or maybe im totaly off..

Ok, so I bring the 24p into vegas (which is set to the 23.97fps template) and I want to save it to .avi before final product. Do I save it as "frame rate-23.976 2-3 pulldown, then when im ready to put all finished pieces together I reimport all those files that were saved as avi(2-3 pulldown) back into vegas and save final as --mpeg 2? progressive scan-- 23.976 fps..and my dvd player will recognize the 2-3 pulldown.

Is this the right way? I dont understand what all the other steps i hear is all about.

I hope i dont sound to confusing., if you need any indepth detail ill tell you.

[mik]

your footage isn't 23.976 out of the tape. why do you set the project as 23.976?

[Matthew MD]

you know I just checked and your right its not 23.976,... I dont know why I though this..?

Ok now I guess I see why you have to do all those steps, like HDVsplit. right?

[24Peter]

Matthew - you can't use any of the 23.97/24 fps settings in Vegas with any HDV 24p footage you've captured using Vegas because Vegas cannot do pulldown removal on those files. You must use 29.97 fps settings for renders/timeline properties. BUT all is not lost: editing 24p HV20 footage on a 29.97 timeline and rendering to MPEG-2 DVDA widescreen non-24p template produces fine looking SD DVD's from your 24p HDV footage.

If you want to use 23.97 fps templates/timelines in Vegas you must remove pulldown first using another application. Review this forum for those applications.

[Matthew MD]

0k thanks peter