The Benefit of Creating 24p DVDs in DVD Studio Pro
You can use 24p material in tracks within DVD Studio Pro as well as in menus, as buttons and in drop zones. How DVD Studio Pro processes your 24p footage depend on how the material was encoded.
If you have already run your footage through compressor and have made 24p Mpeg 2 assets, then your footage will remain 24fps after you have built your project. If you import your footage as a 24p Quicktime asset, it will be encoded as either 30 fps or 25 fps when you build your project.
Having the ability to use 24p assets without the 3:2 pulldown in your DVD Studio Pro project means that their is 20% less frames to deal with, which translates into less compression of the media, yielding a higher quality DVD. Leave it to the DVD player to add back the 3:2 pulldown for NTSC viewing.
