• Blackmagic Design

  pulldown removal, set me straight.

  Posted by Larryd on February 14, 2006 at 7:02 pm

  I want to get this from someone who knows.

  I’m have a show 23.976 origated on HD (F900). We plan to have 29.97 DVCam downconverts for our offline. One DVCam will be letterboxed with BITC, we’ll simultaneously make a squeezed DVCam with matching TC so we can upres the timeline for screenings. Cutting on FCP 4.5.

  Will the decklink card remove the pulldown on capture. (I think it will but people are telling me otherwise)
  If we capture this way can I batch capture from my squeezed DVCam without any problems? (in a post in November, someone said this would be a problem)

  Thanks for the help.

  Larry

  Adam Levine replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Adam Levine

  February 15, 2006 at 4:38 am

  It all depends on what kind of deck you use. If you use an SDI deck, then you can go through the DL card, which will remove pulldown. You will have to create and Offline JPEG setting for that so that you don’t kill your drives with tons of uncompressed offline footage (I have a preset with full frame JPEG at 35% quality that I use).

  Otherwise, capture over FW and use Cinema Tools to remove pulldown (Use the “DV-NTSC 24P” Easy Setup) . If your facility can do it, have them lay the tape down with Advanced Pulldown so you can remove on capture (DV-NTSC Advanced Pulldown Removal” Easy Setup)

  It’s good practice to start your caps on an A frame and end on a D frame. Your facility will no doubt produce NDF tapes for you, so this means all A frames’ TC (29.97 NDF) will end with a 0 or a 5 and all D frames’ TC will end in a 4 or a 9. If you newed to use Cinema Tools, this will make things go more smoothly.

  Also, the footage being anamorphic or letterboxed is immaterial.

  Finally, do FOR SURE cut at 24P, since that’s how you shot, and how you will most likely finish. Otherwise you will have to conform the project durning online

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