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Advanced Pulldown removal: Hit and Miss
I recently rented a Sony DSR 11 deck to move about 12 hours of DVXa00a interview footage (all shot 24Pa) into Final Cut 5.0.4. I used the apple capture preset for this – 29.97, remove advanced pulldown. The interviews were usually 25 to 40 minutes in length. I had a limited time with the deck so I put the tapes in and hit capture now when an interview started and then stopped at the end. Started a new “capture now” with the next interview, etc. From reading the posts on simliar subjects, I’m guessing the “capture now” procedure was the weak link, but I wound up with 21 interviews showing “none” for field dominance and the correct time code (23.98), but 9 of the interviews came back showing lower field dominance and a 29.97 timecode. What’s interesting is if I open these 9 clips in Cinema Tools, that ap reads them as 23.98 and won’t remove pulldown. When I put these 9 clips into the timeline, they get an orange render bar and play back fine, but I would prefer to re-input them and get them to the right settings rather than render. Suggestions would be helpful, particularly whether capture now was the culprit and that logging a clip, then capturing the clip might solve this? Other people with this experience? BTW, I’ve been using the Cow for many helpful problem solving sessions over the past year – thanks! – this is the first one where I’m not sure I’m searching correctly or maybe it hasn’t come up. But glad to be an official member!
Apple FCS, Dual G5 2.7, Logic, MBE
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Did the nine clips all come one after the other? This would mean that something changed on a capture so that all nine came in the same way. if they were randomly captured with this problem then you need to get ahold of apple. As far as capture now is concerned you’re right in that you should do a log and batch capture. that way you know for a fact that all the clips were captured with the same settings.
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jbrad2 wrote: Did the nine clips all come one after the other?
No, they were scattered throughout the capture, some were takes from the middle of a tape where on either side the takes came in correctly, one was the first take on a tape, and a couple were at the very end of the tape.
I did forget to add in my first post that the error message I get when I try to remove the advanced pulldown on the 29.97 clips via the Tools Menu is “Break in advanced pulldown cadence (pattern) found near T.” I’m not sure what that means, but this error is what I am hoping that a log and batch capture will fix.
jbrad2 wrote: that way you know for a fact that all the clips were captured with the same settings.
That’s what’s puzzling to me in that these were just load and go in order to get through all the tapes in 1 day. I didn’t adjust anything within FCP after setting the first capture up. I’ll do a log and capture from the DVX on one of these clips to see if it actually does come in correctly.
Apple FCS, Dual G5 2.7, Logic, MBE
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