Trying to pulldown 24p Scan a footage in Premiere Pro

[Walter Soyka]

[Alex LeMell] ” I should mention that I capture the tape all at one time, and it is composed of different scenes. But I recorded in 24p Scan A (which resets the cadence each time the camera is stopped) so I thought this would no longer be a problem.”

If you have one continuous file composed of different scenes, you are not guaranteed to have continuous cadence.

Consider this scenario:

Shot 1 is AA BB BC (2-3-1). Shot 2 is AA BB BC CD DD (2-3-2-3).

When these are played back to back, you have AA BB BC AA BB BC CD DD (2-3-1-2-3-2-3).

Instead of getting a nice, repeating (2-3) pattern to remove, you have a (1) in the middle there mucking up the works. Each shot is internally consistent in cadence, but the whole set of back to back shots, taken as a whole, is not.

You may need to separate the long clip into shorter ones and remove pulldown from them individually.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Jeff Pulera]

I don’t deal with 24p footage, but in regards to Walter’s suggestion of working with individual clips, perhaps you could recapture the tape with “Scene Detect” enabled and that would provide you with the individual clips then which would possibly facilitate the pulldown removal on a per-clip basis?

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Alex Hanson]

Thank you both. For my particular footage I don’t have scene detection. If I were to capture it in batches, do I have to record the first scene, and then pause the camera at the exact first frame of the second scene, etc, or is there an easier way?

–Alex

[Walter Soyka]

[Alex LeMell] “Thank you both. For my particular footage I don’t have scene detection. If I were to capture it in batches, do I have to record the first scene, and then pause the camera at the exact first frame of the second scene, etc, or is there an easier way?”

It doesn’t need to be the exact first frame. Ae will guess the cadence even if you miss the first frame.

But since you already have everything captured, I’d consider trying scene detection.

DaVinci Resolve can do this for you — check out the Resolve forum or Google “scene detection DaVinci Resolve” for a good tutorial.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Alex Hanson]

I will look into that. Thank you again!