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Back to AE 4? Yipe!
I received an external hard drive with some footage on it from a client for editing a video with. Unfortunately the footage is all in one quicktime movie that is 1 hour and 15 minutes long. Also, unfortunately, the drive only mounts on my old G4 media100 system. 1 more unfortunately…the G4 only has AE4.
The footage is a 720×480 Quicktime movie using Radius SoftDV as the compression. The footage is also @ 24 fps. I am trying to render it to a 720×486 lower field first for the media100. No matter what I try, my result looks like the fields are reversed. It looks terrible. I have tried removing the 3:2 pulldown, but AE gives me an error message. I have never had a problem with 24 fps footage before…but AE7 pretty much takes care of all the interpereting automatically.
Any ideas of what else I can try?
I am crossing my fingers that the field order wasn’t reversed when they exported this very long quicktime movie.
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Thanks for your quick response Dave. I was under the assumption that I had to separate the fields of the footage because it looks like it is interlaced when I view the original file in quicktime.
Anyway, I am going to give these tests a try.
Thanks again!
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I don’t normally use quicktime to judge the quality of footage. But I can use it to tell if footage is interlaced or not. You can see the fields as plain as day when there is fast motion. Regardless, the footage still appears to have fields in AE.
I only discovered the frame rate when I imported it into AE. It is 24.967 fps.
I will try your suggestion about making a comp with twice the frame rate. Thanks man.
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Ok. This is strange. I am not quite sure how to explain this. But I made the comp with double the frame rate and stepped through the clip frame by frame. It changes every frame, however, there seems to be fields in each frame. On every frame I can see two sets of fields where there is a lot of motion.
I have a feeling that the footage was shot interlaced, it was brought into whatever editing program they used to cut this clip of “highlights” wrong (Brought it in as 24p footage). Then exported out as a quicktime with fields.
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yeah, i was thinking that was probably what happened… i think me and dave had tried to troubleshoot same problem for a guy a month or two ago.
i’m not sure you are going to be able to recover the footage that you currently have. you’d like to get new footage sent, but you’ll have to talk to them about how it was shot, captured and edited, to make sure that the fomat is consistent through out.
if it was shot 24p to tape, then the tape will actually be 30i with a pulldown to bring the 24p to 30i, make sure they remove the pulldown at capture and edit in 24p, you don’t want them to edit with the pulldown or the pulldown cadence will get thrown off, and be very difficult to remove after that. and, if they edit in 24p, then you would prefer that they export at 24p.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Well thanks for all your input guys. Yeah, this footage just ain’t workin. It is like it is double fielded….
I don’t envy me either 🙁
Thanks again.
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