Fake 90’s pulldown effect?

[Ryan Kelly]

You could take your 24p clip and render it out inserting pulldown pattern in the render settings (the resulting clip will become 29.97). This will give you a file with 3 whole frames followed by 2 split field frames. This might not be what you want because you’re introduciing fields into your footage.

you might have better luck playing around with precomps and timewarp, time stretch, or twixtor, etc. to get the feel you want without introducing fields

[Ike Hanson]

Yes, that was my idea, some kinda of way of automatically blending every 5th frame or something, but I can’t quite figure out the approach to use. It would introduce the desired motion anomaly that should sufficiently simulate the look I’m going for.

[Ike Hanson]

That will just make it judder, I’m looking to have every fifth frame blended with the sixth frame, so it has the smoothed judder that the pulldown incurs.

[Chris Wright]

maybe your thinking of frame blending.
1. drop 24fps into 29.97fps comp
2. enable comp frame blending switch
3. right click layer frame blending-frame mix

or…
try the old Panasonic DVX-100 method which created more judder than standard 3:2 pulldown using 2:3:3:2 instead of 2:3:2:3.

1. use cinema tools to pulldown 23.976 to 29.97 with (2:3:3:2). It will look super juddery.

[Ike Hanson]

Good idea with the frame blending, perhaps I’m thinking of 30fps footage that’s been made viewable on 25fps PAL systems, or even 60i to 50i? Those shows that have been converted like that have that frame blended look to them, I would think that using a method such as this would create a similar look, but would frame-blending work on every frame?