I put the Who? in Mishehu wrote: > Phil Ehrens wrote: > >People here *do* know that dvd's support and > >usually have mixed framerate content, right? > > > I suspect that's often one framerate for the main title, and a different > one for those goofy extras they put on (outtakes, etc). Or are there > DVD's that mix framerates within the same title?
Most dvd's from the major studios have the studio splash screens and title sequence of the movie switching between 24 and 30 fps every few seconds. Then the main title will be 24 fps with inexplicable sub-second 30 fps bits scattered throughout. DVD's from other countries can have literally ANYTHING on them. I've seen 25 fps NTSC (PAL content described on the packaging as NTSC) created by dropping frames from 30 fps hard-telecine'd source to make PAL, and then selling region 0 PAL dvd's in the packaging from the 30 fps source. God bless India. I suspect that the super-expensive mastering software is responsible for this lunacy, in combination with the brain-dead operators that the mastering companies prefer to hire. Not that they are any worse than everyone else in the movie industry (since the demise of the studio system).
