[Cory Andrews]

It didn’t work because I already editted my video in this timeline. If I bring the original video file I cut up your suggestion works, but the cut footage has this 16:9 letter box attached to it.

Thanks for you help. Maybe I just need to crop it again.

[Cory Andrews]

I’ve lost the original file so I don’t know why it was choppy.

So I guess my best option is to go ahead with this and re-edit as necessary.

Thanks for the help.

[Cory Andrews]

I was going to reverse telecine the original movie file then hide it from Final Cut. When Final Cut asked me to find it I would link it to the new file which has been reversed telecined.

I guess the problem then is I editted a 30 fps file and the one I’m linking it to will be 23.98 fps.

I’ll also try the reverse telecine in Compressor again. It got kind of choppy results in the end when I did that but maybe the file was just too big for the computer?

Thank you again, both of you, for all your help.

[Cory Andrews]

I had it at 99%, now at 100% I see them.

I have no time to reedit. I was using cinema tools to reverse the pulldown. I tried it several different ways and couldn’t get it. I’ll keep trying.

Any other advice for just getting this done?

[Cory Andrews]

Alright, so I had it 99% apparently, when I went to 100% now I see them.

I’m operating under a strict deadline, I can’t reedit. I did the reverse telecine through cinema tools. I’m using a newish apple computers monitor.

[Cory Andrews]

Thanks for the response.

I filmed at 24 fps. The guy who transferred it said if I wanted to reverse telecine I should worry about A frames. But I am watching my footage back at 100% and I see no interlacing at all or repeated frames that come with 3:2 pull down. I tried reverse telecining but everything came back choppy, I think it’s actually progressive.

I’ll try figuring out reverse telecining it again since Compressor is telling a different story but what should I do with this movie after that point? What’s the best way to export it to get the file sizies I want without it looking like garbage?