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3:2 Pulldown Settings / Problem
Hello All-
I have an uncompressed quicktime file shot at 1080/23.98. I’d like to bring it into After Effects and convert it to 29.97 so I can edit in FCP with other 29.97 footage. Being new to AE, I would appreciate it if someone could explain the proper steps, as it seems there are many variables to take into consideration
First, do I need to ADD or REMOVE 3:2 pulldown in After Effects?
I import my file, then I bring up the interpret footage tab-
Should I have AE “guess the pulldown” and leave separate fields “off”, along with the remove pulldown tab, if not, how can I tell what the field order is and the “remove pulldown” settings should be?
Also, is this any different than the render settings tab? There are the same options under the time sampling tab. As a test, I am going to set the pulldown for WSSWW and have set my field order for upper field. Furthermore, the frame rate tab says its being sampled at 23.976 and I have entered 29.97 in the “Use this frame rate” section
Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks
– Mike
Use frame rate from file (23.976) or should I conform to 29.97, since that will be my final output?
In addition, should I keep the field order off, or switch to upper or lower? I am also assuming I should click REMOVE PULLDOWN and use one of those settings as well?
Any advice would be appreciated.
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you should leave your 24p footage as 24p (23.976) and not use interpret footage to change anything about the footage, unless ae is misinterpreting it. you said it’s progressive so ae should see it as progressive, so no field dominance or pulldown should be set (you would use those to remove interlacing and/or pulldown).
you should then be able to drag the clip onto the make comp button so the comp takes on all the attributes of the footage. then change the comp settings to frame rate you desire (29.97). now, when you render, set the render settings in the render queue to field render with the appropriate dominance for your 30i footage and add pulldown (i don’t think the type of pulldown will be important, you just need an extra frame for every four of your progressive frames).
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
i hope you have a good RAID attached as you wont be able to edit that footage of your internal drive
who is that masked man…
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