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24p, Compressor Reverse Telecine, Cinema Tools
Ok, So I thought I understood 24p and how to work with it in post.
I was given footage from an HVX200 shot at 1080p24 (not 24pA or 24pN). So I have to do a reverse telecine. The footage was recorded on P2, but shipped to me on hard drives. So I used Log and Transfer in FCP to import the footage.
I believe I read in Compressor’s manual that in Frame Controls, if you select Reverse Telecine Compressor will figure out the pulldown pattern. So I am not sure why i am getting interlace artifacts in the outputted file.
I tried using Cinema Tools, but because I don’t have much experience with 24p I am having difficult time figuring out the correct options in the Reverse Telecine window for the Capture Mode and Fields sections.
Also, I thought you could use DVCPro HD footage to do a reverse telecine in Cinema Tools. For some reason I don’t have that option until I transcode to ProRes422. Any ideas?
If all of this has been discussed please point me to the proper threads. Otherwise I’ll have to send this footage back to the producer.
I really appreciate the help.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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I just read this on the Ken Stone Blog:
“When shooting in 24p Normal, the camera is adding normal standard 3:2 pulldown to the video, which results in 24p footage designed to work with any non-linear editing suite and it will play back and look good directly to any NTSC monitor. You can use 24p Normal footage just like normal video from any DV camera, and everything will work fine, but obviously, the footage will have a film look to it. If you’re just going straight back to NTSC video tape, then using 24p Normal is the simplest, easiest workflow. No special treatment of the footage is needed and you really can just edit as normal.”
So does this mean I don’t even have to remove the pull-down? I can just editing this footage in a 29.97 timeline? We are going back out to NTSC tape.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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There is no 24pN at 1080….that is 720 only. And if you shot that, then you’d already have 24fps. You only reverse telecine if you shot 1080 24pA. So Ken Stone is right. Edit at 29.97…since you are outputting 29.97, all is right with the world.
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Thanks Shane.
I’m surprised the reverse telecine only works with 24pA. I thought it was for regular 24p since you can removed advanced pull-down in FCP.
Anyway, thank you.
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
http://www.robgrauert.com
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