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  • Serious Trouble with reverse telecine 16mm – field 2 only – Please help!!!

    Posted by Daniel Fiori on June 27, 2008 at 3:36 am

    I´m working for the first time in Brazilian Cinema as a assistent editor and i`m having a serious problem with Cinema Tools Reverse Telecine.

    I´ve read the manual but I can´t get any solution.

    We shoot the movie in 16mm with an Aaton minima camera.

    The telecine was made to dv tapes.

    I´ve created a database in Cinema tools with the flex files, exported a xml to final cut and batch captured.

    My problem is:

    When I use the Cinema tools reverse telecine and open my clip in Final Cut (6.0.3), it still contain fields and I can´t read the letters of the window burn

    The field pattern is A2 B2 C1 D1 D3 — Field 2 only as we can read in the manual.
    I´m reversing for 23.98 fps

    I´ve tried with the “Standard upper/lower” checked and unchecked with no positive results… When I open in the Final Cut, in a 23.98 project, and see the clip
    frame by frame, I can´t read the letters and there is fields…

    In page 132 of Cinema tools manual,you can read in the “Check telecine results” session —> “each letter should be clearly legible…”

    That´s my nightmare… What should I do? Can anyone give me a solution for this problem??

    Thanks for reading…

    Sean Oneil replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Sean Oneil

    June 27, 2008 at 8:26 am

    Have you tried all five cadence options?

    Sean

  • Daniel Fiori

    June 27, 2008 at 11:48 pm

    Yes, i´ve tried all the options… And… the pulldown is still there…

  • Sean Oneil

    June 28, 2008 at 1:24 am

    Are you sure the source contains 3:2:3:2 pulldown? As you jog through it you should see three full progressive frames followed by two frames that have mismatched fields. And then it will repeat.

    Sean

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