Adding pulldown to 1080P footage

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Phil Benson] “This takes quite a while whereas, in contrast, CinemaTools’ REVERSE TELECINE seems so quick and high quality (I know it’s doing the opposite). “

Yes, but the process is far from automatic in that you have to choose the A frame for every movie and if your cadence is broken, the file will come out incorrect.

[Phil Benson] “I’m a bit worried that the workflow above is not only slow, but potentially more quality-invasive than necessary. “

Kind of. Yes, it’s another transcode step, but ProRes was built on the very basis of working with multigenerations. You have nothing to worry about.

[Phil Benson] “so I was wondering if there’s another way to preserve quality but quickly convert from 23.976p to 29.97i. Is this called “adding pull down” or “interlacing”? “

You could lay off to tape with pulldown using a Kona card, or capture the output of that Kona to another machine with a capture device (still another loss of generation).

[Phil Benson] “One other thing, when exporting a Quicktime Movie to ProRes422HQ, I notice the “Interlaced” button (with a “Top Field First” or “Bottom Field First” menu). Does this only affect metadata, or does it actually do the interlacing? “

Metadata only. It won’t add interlacing.

Jeremy