24p interlaced artifacts

[Benjamin Jones]

Dave, thanks for the link, it was helpful.

I just read the article and need clarification on one last thought. When shooting 24p normal and the 3:2 pulldown is applied, you still receive a frame of interlacing, correct? Here is a paragraph from the article:

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24p Normal
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.
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Now, when he says, “no special treatment of the footage is needed, he still implies you’ll have splits, resulting in some bit of interlacing, correct?

Thanks.

[Jaenet Guggenheim]

i am struggling with 24P. jeremy just advised me to try the compressor reverse telecine. which i will.

since the 24p is logged and captured at 29.97 i am wondering if going to 30P with it is a good idea?

i feel sad to think i will look all that pretty picture in compression and decompression. i have heard that is why shooting 720 24PN is just as good as shooting 1080i24P (long after i started this project)

— because in the end, you will have either 24PA footage that looks jerky on most tvs or you will have (somehow) 24P footage that you got into your fcp timeline by compressing and decompressing it, and in that process, you really lose a lot of clarity.

my concern is if i send it to festivals overseas, they have different frame rates. and it seems that going from 24PN to 25 is not a stretch, and that footage would look good. but i am really worried if i have to make mine go from 29.97 to 24 to 25.

so — can all this be done with 1080i 24p and still look good?