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Premiere Pro Pulldown Question
I am using Boris Continuum plug-in on Premiere Pro 2.0. They have a really cool Film Process and Deinterlace filter that simulate 24p pulldown. I am submitting to a film contest and if my submission wins it will be converted (telecined) to film for worldwide distribution. I want to make my video submission film-like, so I want to add the Boris effects in post to give it that film “feel.” My question is whether or not I should add the filter and risk the resolution going haywire should they telecine it later. The Boris effect is “simulated pulldown,” so I have no idea what it would do if actually profesionally telecined later. I just want my submission to look cool when I send it in. Can anyone help with this weird question???
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I’ve been working in PAL motion graphics and video that has been kine’d to film (Kine is the process of putting video onto Film).
Because PAL is 25 and film is 24 it is so close we would use each frame and slow the audio down 4% to compensate the for the 1 frame per second off the 24/25.
It would come out looking great. The Chemist (Film Lab) would do the kine for us. Seriously, the process is pretty darn good from the Lab so let the festival organisers deal with the kine. If your film is shot on film, that will look like film. Deinterlacing is the closest thing you can really do to look like film. That will destroy have the resolutoin, so leave it. That will be done in the film transfer, they will probably use a processs to maintain the other field without is completely wasting the information.
Use the effect for color grading, that’s it. Film looks like film. Film Lenses on a Video camera looks like film, colour space can’t compare to film (yet). Tell your story that is all that matters, not the wizz bang film look effects that boris and others tell you festivals need.
– Jon 😉How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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And if you are working in the NTSC realm, which i suppose your are, as that’s only where we worry about 3:2 pulldown, I’d still echo John’s comments: don’t do it.
My opinion: really good video looks more like “film” than mediocre film looks like film. Spend your energy on editing, color grading, and making sure your dialog can be heard.
-jeff
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Good advice, John. Thanks. I agree completely with what you’re saying. Maybe one day I’ll get a CineAlta and won’t have to worry about it!
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