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Weird pulldown solution
Just in case anyone has to deal with a shot that seems to have a weird pulldown such as WWSWS, the problem may not be pulldown. The shot may or may not have been 24fps, but it was added to a 29.97 timeline without adding pulldown, then speed ramped using blended frames.
I say this because I recently had to deal with a shot from a client’s DVD (original footage unavailable), showing an aerial over a forest. Imagine that in MPEG-2. Because the compression blocked up the trees, I mistook the blended speed-ramped frames for interlaced frames and thought pulldown was applied. Upon closer inspection, the blended frames became apparent.
The solution? All I could do was deinterlace using Fieldskit to get to 29.97 progressive. The blended frames had to stay. Such is life sometimes.
The moral of the story is: sometimes weird pulldown may not be pulldown at all.
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There was some jitter in the trees, but what can you do?
It was suggested by a colleague that I recreate the whole scene in CG.
We had a good laugh over that.
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