deinterlace originally film footage.

[Therman Mermehn]

From what I can see every dvd ripping program seems to throw away the pull down flags. which I’m guessing tell the player what order the pull down is in?

I know that the 3:2 pull down changes order every scene so I cannot simply fix it with after effects. I might be able to get something close but as soon as the scene changes it’s no longer in sync anymore.

[Bouke Vahl]

Get a 29.97 i file from a ripper, and put that into Resolve.
Let the scene detection run, check it. (Or use my ReCut app that I originally designed for this type of work, restoring old movies.)
Render out individual clips of all shots.
Import those into AE, set ‘interpret field’, and let it guess. (Interpret fields can be set in batch, don’t know if the ‘guess’ will work in batch though.)
Then, re-assemble the show.

Yes, it takes time, but not that much.
And it WILL work.

There might be a problem at cuts that are on an interlaced frame, as the full frame info is just not there anymore. Those might have to be trimmed out, meaning you have to trim out some audio here and there as well, or speed up the sound.

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

[Therman Mermehn]

If this was one episode it would be easy to do that but it’s a few hundred , lol.

I think what I’ll do is this (as backwards as it sounds) I’ll just play the dvd and screen record the output from the player. Sure it’ll take a long time but each episode will at least play correctly. lol

BTW…..

if I upload one of these files to a public sharing site would any of you be willing to take a look at it and see if you can get it in order? I saw someone mention it earlier and maybe it would be best

[Bouke Vahl]

A few hundred shots or a few hundred episodes?
If it’s a few hundred shots you should be done with it already by doing it manually.

And, if the player can remove the pulldown on the fly (which I don’t believe if there are cadance breaks in the original master tapes), and you output over HDMI, it won’t be that bad.

But a true 23.976 DVD (I made lots of them) will have the pulldown added by the player, it’s not in the encode. Thus it will not have cadance breaks.

You suggest the DVD’s are made from NTSC edited masters, from film that has been scanned to tape with added pulldown.

You can put up some stuff for others to look at. But first tell me, what is it? And how much do you have? And do you have budget?

Bouke
http://www.videotoolshed.com

[Jody Bruchon]

What happens if you just copy the VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD to the computer and then try to open the first large VTS_xx_x.VOB file within using an MPEG-2 capable media player? You should get video. If it just looks trashed then the DVD needs to have CSS encryption removed first, but from what I can tell you’re using software that doesn’t just decrypt the VOBs but also transcodes video files from them.

You need to work with the original VOB files and you need to use VirtualDub with FccHandler’s MPEG-2 plugin as documented in my other post to process the interlacing and pulldown the way you want. Ripping software tries to do stuff like this for you and may get it wrong.