24p Footage from XL2 looks interlaced?

[Jonathan Cohn]

This wasnt shot in Frame mode. The canon GL2 has Frame mode.

This was shot in 24P mode with an xl2, and 2:3 pulldown is performed. That’s how they get it onto a minidv tape.

I can look at the footage on a tv and in the viewfinder, and it looks progressive. As soon as I capture it into final cut, no matter what my settings are, I get extreme interlaced footage during motion.

Even when i pause playback and the capture window is open in fcp, the frame that is frozen on the computer is interlaced to shit, and the frame in the viewfinder is nice and clean.

Is this making sense?

[Mark Maness]

[Jonathan Cohn] “Even when i pause playback and the capture window is open in fcp, the frame that is frozen on the computer is interlaced to shit, and the frame in the viewfinder is nice and clean.

Is this making sense? “

Very much so… Like Gary said, there is no such thing as “true” 24p in Standard Def video. It has to be processed into “true” 24p. Canon’s 24p on the XL2 is still interlaced. You have to remove the pulldown to get what you want.

As for the quality of the image, if what you mean by viewfinder is the camera viewfinder, then yes, it will look awesome in a very small viewfinder. But, when viewed on a monitor, you’ll see this interlacing. That is because you don’t have a “true” 24p signal and a “true” 24p monitor to view this correctly. And let me say that the computer monitor is NOT a proper monitor for viewing your footage.

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