Graeme Nattress
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You can just nest the video and not nest the audio tracks. As long as the NTSC audio is put on the PAL timeline, it should still sync.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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If you put it on a DV 23.98fps timeline and render, when you play out to tape, FCP will add 3:2 pulldown in real time to get out to 29.97fps.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Ah, but he needs to go to 23.98fps, so….
Bring in PAL DV as PAL DV. Deinterlace with a high quality deinterlacer, take to cinema tools. Hit “conform” to 23.98fps. Place on FCP timeline and scale up to 1080. Done.
I’d make sure FCP is set to high quality motion for it’s improved scaling. End image should look very good indeed.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Kell factor is how resolution is perceived (due to the integration effect of the sampling filter on the display), but Interlace filtering is the actualy reduction in vertical resolution to avoid interlace twitter. Usually interlace filtering will reduce resolution to about 70% or so of the rated total. Kell effect effects all displays, the percentage being based upon the type of display, but is also in the 70% or so region.
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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If you have FCP6 you can try the one that I do in Color too, which is smarter than the smart ones I have for FCP in Film Effects.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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If you’e got FCS2 with Color, I’ve got some tools which may help you. https://www.nattress.com/Products/FinalTouch/FTGSmartDeNoise.htm which sounds like a denoise filter, also has the capability of adding sharpening without any possibility of it sharpening or enhancing noise (you just leave the sharpening on, but turn the denoise part off).
For some other sharpening, there’s a smart sharpen tool which is clever as it doesn’t work traditionally, but can, if used with subtlety, can bring slightly out of focus edges into focus. This type of sharpening doesn’t amplify noise, but can produce distortion if you overdo it.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Two ways I know:
1) drop 60p footage on 24p timeline. FCP will throw away frames to make it 24p and it retains the 24p motion, but will be a bit un-smooth as frames are thrown away.
2) in my Standards Conversion plugin, I put in a routine to allow 60p to 24p with control over frame blending to smooth things out.
Of course, you can get Compressor or whatever to do the conversion too – try your alternatives and see what works best for you and your footage.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Actually I’ve found FCP quite good for upscaling. Make sure you turn on high quality motion filtering in the timeline and it looks pretty good. I’d try that first before I spend on another solution.
If you’re dealing with progressive video or you want to deinterlace interlaced video, scaling up in Color can also look pretty good, but for that I tend to go in and denoise and other stuff as well, which can help.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Yes, if you want to convert a 29.97fps movie (interlaced at 60i) to 24p (23.98fps) then my Standards Conversion plugin and it’s Film Converter will do the job for you with great quality, all inside FCP. This solution is great for making a 24p DVD, or web movie from 60i material, or for integrating 60i footage into a 23.98fps project. I don’t know why the OP wants to do the conversion, but if it’s any of those reasons I’ve mentioned, then that’s the answer.
if you just want a 24p look in a normal 60i project, then my Film Effects is the easiest solution. The look is the same as converting to 24p, but you get the convenience of the 29.97fps timeline and direct output to tape formats that don’t support 24p.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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It certainly looks like compression artifacting. What I’d suggest is, given the background is highlight detailed and if it’s moving it will be stressing out the MPEG2, is to blur the background a bit and see if that helps.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP