480i 24p from P2 into FCP

[Noah Kadner]

Sounds like you may have shot 24p standard. How many interlaced frames do you see when going frame by frame? One every 5 is 24pA, 2 interlaced followed by 3 progressive is 24p.

Noah

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[Jonas Cox]

Yes, I’m pretty sure it’s 24 p standard- I consciously set it that way when I shot, and it’s showing that way in the camera’s playback display. If I’d done a little more research, I would have learned (before the shoot) that 24 pa yields better resolution than 24 p standard.

To remove the pulldown of the 24 p material, I opened up the files in Cinema Tools, but the remove telecine option (or something to that effect) is grayed out; plus, as I mentioned, Tools>Remove Advanced Pulldown in FCP gives an error message.

I’ve since used After Effects CS3 to do pulldown, but that appears to create a color shift– even before I do the pulldown in AE, the imported QT, when played from the AE project window, shows as darker and more saturated than the QT does in either FCP or QuickTime. And then, if I render out from AE as DVCPRO50, 23.98 fps, it does a heavy compression. Setting compression to “None” ends up with a clean, but huge file (unfortunately, AE does not, to my knowledge, have the equivalent of Avid’s QT reference movie, which would eliminate the need to render from AE). So this is not a great workaround for getting stuff into FCP.

Any thoughts?

TIA,
Jonas