Help Me Please!!

[Shane Ross]

Pulldown only refers to footage shot on film and transferred to tape, or footage shot 24P or 24PA where the footage what captured at 29.97 fps and pulled down to 24 fps or 23.98 fps.

How was your footage shot? What do the horizontal lines look like? Are they visible when viewed on an external NTSC monitor or TV?

[N Domm]

I am shooting on a Sony DCR-VX 2100 Camera(mini dv)
From the camera I capture it into FCPHD at regular NTSC 720×480.
I export the ads to quicktime files-either no compression or MPEG4
Sometimes I see the lines in FCP sometimes in Quicktime.
Sometimes these are brought into AfterEffects 6.5, and that makes the lines even worse.

If you have any idea what this is let me know, or if you can tell me what I should have the pulldown pattern set at for this.
Thanks for all youur help,
Ned

[N Domm]

I am shooting on a Sony DCR-VX 2100 Camera(mini dv)
From the camera I capture it into FCPHD at regular NTSC 720×480.
I export the ads to quicktime files-either no compression or MPEG4
Sometimes I see the lines in FCP sometimes in Quicktime.
Sometimes these are brought into AfterEffects 6.5, and that makes the lines even worse.

If you have any idea what this is let me know, or if you can tell me what I should have the pulldown pattern set at for this.
Thanks for all youur help,
Ned

[Don Greening]

The Sony VX2100 you’re using isn’t capable of shooting at a frame rate where pulldown pattern is an issue for you. Even if you shoot at 30 progressive and import into FCP the program will still show it in 60 interlaced but without the two video fields. Just use the DV NTSC codec within FCP to import your footage and make sure your timeline is the same (DV NTSC). Once you export your movie from FCP perhaps that is when you’re introducing the horizontal line artifacts by choosing to export via uncompressed. This last statement is just a guess, however.

– Don