[Andrew Davids]

and i appreciate the help from all three of you 🙂 thanks!

[Andrew Davids]

Thank you both very much for your fast and helpful replies. I think I’ll go about removing the pulldown in After Effects. I found the cadence, however it’s only been successful on the footage if I use the capture scratch. What I mean is, if I export just a small piece I want to use from FCP and apply the correct pulldown cadence (the one that works on the raw capture scratch), it does not remove the interlacing. This is when exporting from FCP as a quicktime movie using current settings (I tried both making it self-contained and not). Any idea why this is?

Also, Dave, the whole project is from film, but I hadn’t planned on removing the pulldown from all the footage and working in a 23.98 sequence. What would be the advantage of that if I know I’ll be going back to 29.97 anyway?

I do dislike the interlacing look, and since I plan to put the final output both on the web and on dvd, I suppose working in 23.98 would allow me to export a non-interlaced version for the web before I go back and add the pulldown for a dvd. Did I just answer my own question?

I opened the footage in Cinema Tools to test it out– what settings would you use if you had this footage? There seem to be a lot of options. I would have to use the Reverse Telecine options, correct? If so, conform to 23.98 or 24 (I’m assuming 23.98 to work in FCP). As far as the fields go, the default in Cinema Tools is set to “captured as” F1-F2, with Fields in AA Style 1. Is it similar to removing the pulldown in After Effects the way Steve said, where it’s trial and error, just test it until there’s no interlacing, or are these default settings usually correct.? (I would test them all but it takes a long time).

Sorry to reply by saying thank you then proceed to ask a ton of questions. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,

Andy

[Andrew Davids]

sorry, please oh please disregard my post. command+option+F. idiot, me.