• Adobe After Effects

  23.98p to 29.97i

  Posted by Jack Bonnett on March 28, 2013 at 8:12 pm

  Hi All,

  I’m sorry to ask this again as I know this has been covered many times in many ways on this forum…. I’ve read most of them and they have helped me in many ways….. Also apologies as I’ve posted this in the FCP forum too…..

  We have recently been editing together various combinations of load of clips from a client to run on loops on different TV screens. Almost all the content was sent to us as 29.97i MPEGS that we’ve had to extract and work from. This has been a joy in itself. We have now been sent two clips bits of which they wish to add in to one of our edits and these are at 23.976p.

  Now I know that the best way to do this is hardware, hardware that we don’t have in house, and the boss is reluctant to shell out on an Alchemist at the moment so software it is…..

  After Effects
  Made the edits in FCP at 23.98p and exported to a new master.
  Added this file to AE
  Dragged into new Comp in AE
  Added to Render Queue,
  Frame Blending On For Checked Layers
  Field Render Upper Field First
  3:2 Pulldown WSSWW

  I think that I have followed those procedures correctly? The problem we are having is ghosting on the clip during a few periods of fairly rapid motion once it is edited in to the timeline, exported and displayed on the TV with all of the above techniques. Is this unavoidable using this method or have I missed something somewhere?

  I’ve also tried in Compressor with the following settings with similar results….

  What I have tried so far.
  Compressor:
  Made the edits at 23.98p and exported to a new master.
  Added this file to Compressor
  Set to export a new ProRes (HQ) file with frame controls turned on.
  Changed the frame rate in video settings to 29.97
  Set Output Fields to Upper Field first and Deinterlace to Best (just in case)
  Set Duration to 100% of Source
  Set Rate Conversion to Fast – I have also tried Best

  Once again thanking everybody for their, ongoing, help.

  Jack Bonnett replied 13 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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