• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Is 3:2 pulldown available in Premiere Pro?

  Posted by Phil Radelat on August 1, 2011 at 1:33 am

  I’m working on a project with someone who shot it at 1080/24 on his Canon 60D. A standard def DVD copy needs to be rendered out of it, among other versions. Can Premiere do pulldown on export? I see no option for it, although it allows you to render at 29.97. Is this automatically applying pulldown? If not I’ll have to export to image sequences and make the frames in combustion, or perhaps AE.

  Phil Radelat replied 14 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Troy Murison

  August 1, 2011 at 6:22 am

  If I remember correctly, you can create a 29.97 sequence (with fields) and copy and paste 23.976 footage into it and Pr will correctly insert 3:2. There are no handles I’m aware of to control this but it worked fine for me do exactly what you’re looking to do.

  -Troy Murison
  Seattle, WA
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  Phil Radelat

  August 1, 2011 at 11:26 pm

  Hmmm, strange. I’m not sure what it’s doing, actually. I just rendered a short clip out, and I don’t see any interlacing. All I see is the 4th frame repeated on the 5th, and the process starts over. All frames are progressive, even though I set it to standard NTSC lower fields first.

  However the clip doesn’t look odd on playback. It appears normal to me. Good enough for Rock ‘n Roll I guess.
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  Troy Murison

  August 2, 2011 at 12:31 am

  Okay, I now remember that what I was doing was copying from 23.976 HD sequence and pasting into a 29.97 HD sequence with upper fields and it worked fine. Then I output to tape and a downconvert was made for a DVD and SD deliverables. Old school, I know, but nevertheless my result was good with proper fields that I could step through in the 29.97 sequence just as if the sequence was a file ingested with pulldown in it. I’m monitoring through SDI via a BM Decklink card. It actually shocked me at the time as I’m used to seeing this in FCP with repeated 4th frame.

  So I never actually tried to paste into a SD sequence, sorry should have read more closely. I’ll try it when I’m in front of my machine again.

  -Troy Murison
  Seattle, WA
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  Phil Radelat

  August 3, 2011 at 12:20 am

  >>Okay, I now remember that what I was doing…<< What version of PP was that on? Curious. Maybe I'm going blind, but what I did seems to work, all you have to do is output to standard 29.97 DVD format. Like I said, it appears to repeat the fourth frame on the fifth, and then repeat, all with progressive frames. The video looks fine. Like the Staples ad says, "that was easy"...

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