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Anamorphic Widescreen 24p HELLLPPPP!!!
Hello everyone–I am at my wits end, so I pray someone may be able to help me. To start things off, I have some VERY problematic footage. Half of my film was shot in 24p advanced mode withan anamorphic 16:9 lens on the Panasonic AGDVX100a. The rest (the “B” footage) was shot with the next best camera, my Sony VX2100…but at 29.97 and in 4:3.
I have determined that I will convert the 29.97 to 24p using Magic Bullet Frames Plus, and convert it to Widescreen, since (hopefully) this will be the footage used the least.
My question is this:
I am editing in CS4. When I import my footage, it reads it as 29.97 and is “stretched” vertically. I “Interpret” the footage, and change my pixel aspect ratio to “Widescreen” and “remove 24p pulldown”….now my footage looks PERFECT….HOWEVER….when I need to export to After Effects, to do my color correction, and special effects, everything gets confused. I render an UNCOMPRESSED AVI and then bring it into AE. my footage now looks “interlaced”…and “squished” again, and some of my frames appear “duplicated”.
What am I doing wrong???I am very confused…if I output an uncompressed AVI, shouldn’t it just read EXACTLY as it is appearing to me in the timeline of Premiere?
My workflow:
Edit in Premiere. Render a clip for effects–bring into After Effects, and then render that, and then bring that clip into Premiere, replacing the original clip.Can anybody help me with this? Thanks so much!
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Thank you for the reply Dave–
That makes sense about the anamorphic footage—so don’t “alter it” at all then—-don’t try to scale it to the correct aspect ratio?
As for rendering clips…
Priemer does interpret the pulldown correctly. I can tell by previewing in my timeline. The problem occurs when I try to render out a clip, so that I can bring that into After Effects. Once I render a clip…the problems come around. I can perfectly drop the entire original captured footage into Premiere, or After Effects, and have it correctly remove the (2:3:3:2) pulldown. If I render straight fom After Effects (using the raw footage), it does a perfect render–23.976, with no duplicate frames or interlacing.
HOWEVER….
If I render a clip out of Premiere using the raw footage (UNCOMPRESSED AVI)….this clip is messed up—looks interlaced, and does not look like Progressive frames.
My timeline says 23.976, and when I scrub through, it “appears” like it is full frames with no interlacing…but my render doesn’t come out that way.
Any idea on this?
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Thanks Dave-I’ll give that a shot in an hour (after 5) and let you know how it goes. I did notice that AE interprteted the clip on it’s own. I guess I just figured it would “know” what it was doing. I also noticed that it applied 24p pulldown to the uncompressed file as well. On an Uncompressed AVI that was rendered from the 24p timeline, it shouldn’t have to do any type of pulldown, should it? Perhaps something was rendered incorrectly?
My goal is to render out a small uncompressed clip from the Premiere timeline…apply my special effects in AE, and then bring that FX clip back onto my Premiere timeline.
I realize I have a “bear” of a project with many technical problems to overcome…a large one by itself is “upscaling” my 4:3 footage to 16:9. Do you know a good way to do this (with the least amount of resolution loss?) I know I shouldn’t be asking such an “amateur question…but originally I was planning on using a letterbox to make both sets of footage conform…and then recently decided to do a true 16:9 image, since most of the footage we will use is from the Panasonic 24p camera.
THANKS AGAIN!!!!
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