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Prelinger archives
Hi all!
I am having a lot of problems with some archive material that we have downloaded from the prelinger archives (archive.org). There seems to be no logic to the way the pulldown is layed and I am thinking that perhaps the material has been damaged when it has been scanned. Though, in after effects, I can get the material look ok for 4 frames and then I get a in-between frame, I then adjust the pulldown pattern but get an in-between frame again.
I guess my question is, what do you do when you encounter material with pulldown patterns that you don’t understand? I tried de-interlacing it with the filters in the G Film package from Nattress and it sort of worked but I still got some artifacts.
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4 Replies
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Is it PPPPIPPPPI the whole time?
That’s 2.3.3.2 cadence…
One way to fix that (if you are going to 24fps is to load it in a FCP sequence and set it to 125 speed with FRAME BLENDING OFF and then export and conform to 24 in Cinema Tools
That will get rid of the duplicate frame.
BUT — make sure this is actually a duplicate frame and not actually an interlaced frame. Put it in FCP and make sure your canvas and viewer are set to 100 percent to see ALL the lines of resolution.
Good luck,
CaptM
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I always convert my Perlinger archive downloads with MPEG Streamclip, its free and you can get it here:
I just set the conversion to whatever my project spex are and let it go…works great and the price is right on the mark…
P Maar
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Hi thanks for the tip!
I have tried a lot of different settings in AE including (I think) all combinations of pulldown and candance there are, still I get something that looks like an interlaced frame. I think it’s random, at least I can’t figure it out but I will try the FCP sequence trick and see if it works!
Thanks a lot!
Pasi -
Thanks a lot!
I will give it a try!
/Pasi
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