Support for 23.98 HD Video?

Precision Transfer · Post by **Precision Transfer** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:38 pm

Hello,
I was wondering if DVD MovieFactory 5 supports 23.98 frame HD video (1920x1080)?

It appears to import a ready-made MPEG-2 HD file properly, but it wants to re-compress and convert it to 29.97. I would like to simply have the file I've already compressed to pass-through and just use the software to author an HD-DVD disc.

Is this possible?

tyamada · Post by **tyamada** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:32 pm

Movie Factory 5 usually will pass through video without changing the proprities. Just try a little clip to see what you get.

Video Studio 10 will let you select that frame rate.

kconan · Post by **kconan** » Wed May 16, 2007 2:29 am

I saw this post so I will not open a new one.

I'm testing Ulead MF 6 for hd-dvd burning and this software is great but I'm trying to create a hd-dvd from a 23,9 frames HDV project. Is that possible? It always converts to 29.97. Is it true that hd-dvd does not support 24 frames natively?

Thank you in advance.

kconan · Post by **kconan** » Wed May 16, 2007 12:02 pm

please can any ulead software developer answer this?

thank you.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu May 17, 2007 12:47 am

please can any ulead software developer answer this?

If there are any Ulead developers (or other employees) here on the user-to-user board, they don't identify themselves as such.

You may have to research the specs yourself.

...I have a copy of DVD Demystified, but it's an older version and it does not cover HD-DVD or Blu-Ray.

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:09 am

Is it true that hd-dvd does not support 24 frames natively?

According to everything I've read 24fps (23.xxx) is compliant for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Looks like MF doesn't support this though.

kconan · Post by **kconan** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:56 am

thanks for the answer. It seems that we have to wait for next versions. I think the support of 23,98 frames in a hd-dvd project is very important for professional presentations.

Today there are great HDV cameras that record 23,98 progressive frames with a quality unthinkable couple of years ago. The possiblity to create a normal DVD-R (or DL) with HD quality is also for me a revolution.

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Thu May 17, 2007 2:43 pm

thanks for the answer. It seems that we have to wait for next versions. I think the support of 23,98 frames in a hd-dvd project is very important for professional presentations.
Today there are great HDV cameras that record 23,98 progressive frames with a quality unthinkable couple of years ago. The possiblity to create a normal DVD-R (or DL) with HD quality is also for me a revolution.

MovieFactory is a consumer based product though.
I'd like to be able to capture in 24fps mode for conversions to HD-WMV or Divx, would be nice to start off with frame_based video from the beginning.
End result would be better motion in those other formats.

kconan · Post by **kconan** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:48 pm

I'ts a consumer based product. Rigth. But only with that feature it will be extremely powerful.

Ulead should think in a market of independent professionals (like me) that can't find any proper solution to export HDV 24p projects into HD-DVD format.

This may seem selfish or a feature not important, but for example european users can feel out of the "game" thinking about HD formats. My case is that I shoot with an european HDV camera (Canon XH A1) and if I want to create a HD-DVD I have to convert the frame rate to american standards. The only "easy" and possible way for a person with a normal computer is to convert from 25fps to 24fps (there are softwares that do it very well). But to convert from 25fps to 29fps is a pain in the xxx. So here is the dilema: european shoot HDV at 25, there's not any other choice (only progressive or interlaced) and what can we do to export to an HD-DVD??? Only prey, waiting for true 24fps support in an authoring software like this...

The only light I can see is what I read in other forum:

"studio releases on HD formats all seem to be authored at 24FPS with pull down flags for 60Hz playback regardless if they're for PAL or NTSC market"

Is that possible for "home made releases"?

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Thu May 17, 2007 7:16 pm

I would contact ulead sales. I read awhile back they were working on a pro-studio suite for HD production. I think MF5+ may be a small piece of that suite.