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24PA Conversion issues
Hi.
I have shot a project in 24PA. About 10 hours of footage. When I started capturing with pulldown immediately I had problems. Ok, not the first time. I captured everything in 30i, tapes beginning to end. Then I sub-clipped the footage, did a batch export creating reference files and imported those into the project. However when I tried to do “Remove Advanced Pulldown” only about 20% of the clips were converted properly. Even many where the camera was running without being turned off or paused, which is when I noticed most of the cadence breaks occur, were not converted to 24p. Is there anything I could try to do to fix this? Also, do you think I might also have some problems with the deck that I’m using? Or is it just the camera making all that mess?
Camera: JVC DY-HD100 shooting in DV NTSC
Deck: Sony DSR-100
FCP 5.1.4Thanks.
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If it were me, I’d recapture it all removing the pulldown during the capture if indeed you really need to do this at all.
Might try your method on fewer clips at a time, but I’ve always removed that pulldown during capture when I could if I needed to.
There is one other thing I’m not sure I understand. When you exported the subclips, were they self contained movies?
What is your intended delivery? DVD? Broadcast? web? In reality, there’s very little reason to remove the pulldown anyway, as it won’t look any different really.. just smaller files in the end, and if for broadcast or DVD’s the pulldown will get added back in the end.
The only reason to remove the pulldown is in the event of a film print, or the files just have to be smaller to fit on a DVD etc., the look is the same in the end whether or not you’ve removed the pulldown.
Jerry
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Good points all…
Jerry
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All fair points. And i agree with all of them. I also went to find a mirror. Unfortunately I don’t have the luxury of having enough time to go to square 1. Also trust me, I don’t capture full tapes because i have complete faith in the equipment or find it fun. Not a preferred workflow.
I did start with Advanced Pulldown, but encountered problems. The workaround I described worked for me before.
Anyway, the reason I want to remove interlacing is because the project may also end up on the web (dvd is the first delivery format). In that case I would prefer to work with progressive footage. I guess I’ll just work in 29.97 and forget about it.
In any case. I was wondering if it is possible that I can get drop frames and cadence issues because of a deck, or it is only dependent on the camera.
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