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Clueless on inverse telecine using Media Composer
I’ve got lots of HDV footage shot in 24 frame (29.97 w/ 3:2 pulldown added) that has to be edited in a project that is 23.976. I’ve ingested all the HDV into a project and bins that are 29.97 but I cannot open those clips in the 23.976 project without playback jerkiness or double image-type strobing after rendering. I’ve tried transcoding test clips and also changing format but without success. Is inverse telecine what I should be trying to do? Is that something Media Composer can do? Or do I use something else to convert it with? This is really confusing. Being a videographer for over 20 years it is humbling to have assumed a lot about a process I don’t know much about.
Thanks in advance for any help!
(Mac OS 10.7.5, MC 6.0.1, 27″ iMac–20GB RAM etc. Footage acquired on Sony HDV tape cameras and Sony FS-100 using SD cards.)John Brune
Fort Wayne, IN
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“In theory” when capturing in a 29.97 project (assuming 29.97i) and then opening that bin in a 23.976p project, a motion adapter is automatically applied and should look to the content for 2:3 removal. It seems in this case, it is just making an assumption for first frame of clip to something or another and removing/combining the wrong fields.
Michael
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Michael I agree. I had to relaunch the application and after trying it again I noticed that parts of these HDV clips looked fine and other parts (usually deeper into each ingested shot) the 2:3 pulldown was all messed up and made the footage look jerky. I can’t describe it better than that. I thought it was working fine on everything all these weeks I’ve been working on shooting and ingesting more stuff but today was the first time I saw there were strange anomolies in the conversion. Weird.
John Brune
Fort Wayne, IN
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If you open the Motion Effect Editor and promote the Motion Adapter to a Time Warp, you can modify the pulldown cadence
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Thanks John – I remembered seeing that somewhere. Promote, promote, promote. I can’t remember if it does an analysis of the pulldown and applied as needed, or of it defaults to the same cadence at the head of every clip. I need to check that one of these days.
Michael
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John Thank you! I’ve never used that particular feature before. I will play around with it but I’ve already found that after promoting I’ve had success with the settings: Type-both fields Source-Film with 2:3 pulldown Output-progressive To select 2:3 pulldown or not is what’s got me confused a little but I’ve rendered out a test and it works very nicely. I had also exported a test clip and converted it to 23.976 in Handbrake successfully but importing the converted file took a LONG time!
Thank you very much!!John Brune
Fort Wayne, IN
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Michael it appears that promoting the clip and adjusting the cadence in this manor works on a case by case basis. I’ve tried it on the entire clip from beginning to end and it didn’t fix it. But when I tried it on select portions of the clip where the problem was it worked great.
John Brune
Fort Wayne, IN
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If you are having a problem where a portion of a clip is having cadence issues, it’s likely you have dropped frames during capture…assuming this is original camera footage and not edited footage from a master. Otherwise the cadence should remain consistent.
Anyway, glad it worked.
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I was considering re-ingesting the footage to check on that but otherwise I think for the trouble spots your solution will do nicely. Have a great weekend!
John Brune
Fort Wayne, IN
steadicamjr@yahoo.com
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