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How do you make 3:2 pulldown removal work?
I have 29.97 1080 UC footage that is originally from a 23.98 camera. I am trying to remove the pulldown with a BM HD Pro card in FCP. What settings do I use? Nothing I tried worked. I can bring it in 29.97 but the pulldown is obviously still there. If I put the Capture frame rate at 23.98 it doesn’t see any video coming in. There is also no information that I could find in the documentation. I did find the frame offset but it didn’t seem to do anything.
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6 Replies
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You capture at 23.98 and use cinema tools to perform the pulldown.
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I can’t say for HD… but in SD you make a 23.98 capture setting (duplicating your 10 bit NTSC setting and switching the framerate to 23.98) and then simply capture starting on an “A” frame (A, B, jitter, jitter, D)
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Thanks for the tip but it’s not working. You’d think BM would have some info as it’s supposedly a feature on their card.
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Well this method also worked for our AJA Io boxes – and since they’re just dumb hardware, it must be a FCP thing. I know in the BM system preferences, there’s a dialog about 3:2 removal… but have no idea how that works. Your best bet until then it just to capture 30fps, and have Cinema Tools or After Effects strip the 3:2 out
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Hi Robert,
Use the “Blackmagic HDTV 1080psf 23.98” easy setups to cnfigure your project. Once that is selected, you need to open up the capture preset settings (cmd-opt-Q) and change Input under “Qucktime Video Settings” to “HDTV 1080i 29.97”. Your system will now see the input and capture it to the 23.98 timeline.
regards
Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design -
I’ll try it again tomorrow. Don’t you guys think you should have something about this in a PDF file?
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