Best way to use 29.97i in 24p timeline?

[Doug Metz]

[Noam Osband] “It seems the best way to do this and maintain full rez is export, the footage will come out as 60i and then use Compressor and Reverse Telecine. Right?”

Okay, I did some testing just now. Imported a 2 minute clip of Canon PF24 into a fresh library.

Selected the clip in the browser, and checked the inspector -> Settings… Field Dominance Override was set to Off. I didn’t touch anything there, not even deinterlacing.

I then dropped the entire clip into a 24p timeline, and it was terrible. Choppy playback/duplicate frames, interlacing artifacts, you name it.

Selected the same clip in the timeline and changed the Rate Conform / Frame Sampling from Floor to Nearest Neighbor, and it was damn near perfect. Smooth playback, no duplicate frames or stuttering, and the only thing not quite perfect was a little ghosting of bright green and red LEDs on a quick pan (and only every 5th frame). Nothing you would notice during playback, only when stepping through frames.

My results with Compressor’s Reverse Telecine setting were not good. Still trying some things there, but I’m not hopeful. I really miss JES Deinterlacer.

Doug Metz

Dalton Agency

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