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    When to use 23.98PD

    Posted by Jack Johnson on March 15, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    I’m capturing some HDCAM 23.98 footage and I came across a menu setting on the Sony J-H3. I understand that the PD in 23.98 stands for pull down, but I don’t understand when that setting needs to be implemented and what exactly it does.

    Any information would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

    Jack

    Doug Beal replied 15 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Chad Brewer

    March 15, 2011 at 11:41 pm

    The Sony J-H3 VTR has the 23.98PD setting to add pull-down so you can output a 29.97 signal from a 23.98PsF recorded tape.

    Chad Brewer
    Senior Broadcast Videotape Operator
    TeleVersions, LLC

  • Jack Johnson

    March 15, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    So the J-H3 is actually converting the footage from 23.98 to 29.97 in the 23.98PD setting?

  • Chad Brewer

    March 16, 2011 at 12:38 am

    Yes.

    Chad Brewer
    Senior Broadcast Videotape Operator
    TeleVersions, LLC

  • Doug Beal

    March 16, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    and depending how you have TC settings could be generating Drop frame code from NDF source which can be a very bad thing in offline / online scenarios

    Doug Beal
    Editor / Engineer
    Rock Creative Images
    Nashville TN

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