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Final Cut Not Interpreting HVX200 footage properly
Shot footage in DVCPro 50 24p and Final Cut 5 brings it in as 29.97i no matter what setting I use. The footage looks horrible and is pretty much unusable. It is some green screen footage and keys out great but it is interlaced as crap and doesn’t have the look I got through the view finder. Any suggesitons would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Jon Walker
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7 Replies
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Well I am not the total expert here but if you shot 24p then the camera does a 3:2 pulldown to convert it 29.97 on the fly. this will cause an interlaced looking frame every few frames or so. If you wanted a true 24 FPS then you should have shot it at 24pn. From my understanding it flags only the 24 frames per second and skips the 3:2 pull down.
-Lars
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Lars, you’re right kind of. In DV50, there is no 24pNative, but there is 24pNormal (which is 24p with standard 3:2 pulldown). DV50 has a mode called 24pAdvanced which has advanced pulldown (2:3:3:2). This makes removing the pulldown frame much easier.
Jon did you shoot 24p of 24pA? If you shot 24pA then removing the pulldown is a click of a button, if you shot 24p then you have to use cinema tools to get 24p media.
Jeremy
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I just shot regular 24p so that makes sense. I will try the 24pA and see how that turns out. Thanks for your help guys.
Jon Walker
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Hi, I have a similar issue that Jon has, and I am trying Cinema Tools as you suggest, however, when I do a REVERSE TELECINE in Cinema Tools, it gives me an abbreviated set of options, allowing me to only choose the Conform frame rate. When it perform the reverse tele, it doesn’t do it right and leave a frame of interlacing even though I have chosen the correct A frame.
So far, After Effects has no trouble with this footage, but Cinema Tools does. I can’t explain this one because I have removed pulldown a million times before with other captured footage. The only unique scenario here is the P2 capture and import. Any suggestions?
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Did you click the ‘standard upper/lower’ button?
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That’s just it, that option does not appear for me like it does when I REV TELE other footage. What is the footage telling Cinema Tools to prevent all those options from showing up. All I get is a smaller window that appears and says:
“Automated Reverse 2:3:2:3 Pulldown”
“Conform to: 23.98 or 24”
File New (smaller) or Same (faster)…..this option is greyed out
Check for cadence discontunuities….this option is greyed out
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When I park my head on an A frame and click ok, I don’t get properly REV TELE footage, there are still interlaced frame in there. -
What version of Cinema Tools do you have? You should be clicking rev telecine, not ok. It is possible to put up a 3 second bit for me to download? I’d shoot something myself, but my camera is out on a shoot for the rest of the week.
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