wit’s end–1 out of every 4 frames interlaced in 1080 24p

[Matthew Dorris]

Hey–

There is definitely something funky going on with the pulldown. There really isn’t a way to put the pulldown back in and then pull it out again is there?

[Matthew Dorris]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for taking the time to respond. It was capture off of a p2 card. It was brought into FCP via the Log and Transfer window, with “remove advanced pulldown and duplicate frames” selected. The strange part is that the pulldown was not removed, and i had to remove it via tools>>remove advanced pulldown.

matt

[Alan Okey]

Sounds like maybe it wasn’t 24pA, but regular 24p. That might explain the failure of FCP to “remove advanced pulldown,” because perhaps it wasn’t advanced pulldown.

[Matthew Dorris]

That’s what I thought as well, but when I re-import the regular footage and look at the file info, the pulldown is 2:3:3:2, which would indicate it was shot in 24pA right?

Also, when I bring it into a 1080i 24pA project in Premiere it imports correctly at 23.98 with no interlacing problems. What gets really interesting is that if I export the p2 footage i bring into premiere to a p2 folder, and then log and transfer that into FCP, it removes the pulldown correctly.

There is something really strange going on and I’d like to fix it as I’ve already spent a significant amount of time editing.