Heather Mahoney
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Thank you all for your advice and guidance. Talking to the people in Russia it seems more evident now that they did not recently transfer the film, but they made the Digibeta from an old master. How that caused the interlacing problem I am not sure, but that also makes sense why the noise in the footage looks like analog noise. It appears the problem is ‘baked in’ and we are getting good results with deinterlacing the footage, so all is not lost. It’s just a shame that these aren’t brand new transfers, but you can’t always get what you want.
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We are looking at the material on several professional monitors as well as a computer monitor. When I am back to work on Monday I can give you exact models. I know we have a Sony HD plasma, an older Sony tube monitor and a brand new Panasonic LCD monitor. We are running Snow Leopard on the Mac editing system. I was also concerned that the method I am using to ‘fix’ the problem is also degrading the image further. There is no doubt there is a serious issue with these transfers, as other 25 pal SD material we have received from other studios has never showed this type of interlacing issue. The studio in Russia also refuses to retransfer the material which makes me somewhat suspicious as to what’s going on. Thanks.
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Thank you for your help. What ended up working best for me was to use Compressor to convert the entire film to ProRes 422 HQ. I realized that the entire film was off by at least a frame when I brought it into Color originally. After conversion to ProRes I was able to color correct with no issues.
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It’s odd, because the ones giving me trouble seem to mostly already be ProRes, but many of these are ‘merged’ which is a term I’m not familiar with.
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The sequence settings are HDTV 1080i(16:9) square pixels, 23.98 fps Compressor Apple ProRes 422 HQ. Some of the source clips are HDV compression, some are ProRes 422 HQ and it seems they are all 23.98fps.
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Thank you for your help everyone. I have been able to successfully create a 23.98 NTSC file that is about 4 percent longer than the original PAL version using Cinema Tools. The final thing I need help on is adjusting the pitch of the audio. When I stretched the audio in Final Cut to match the new NTSC version the audio sounds a bit too low compared to the original PAL version. Should I be using Soundtrack Pro, which I am very new at, to fix the pitch? Is there an automatic pitch adjustment control that will adjust the pitch when I stretch out the audio? Thanks in advance.
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Hi Dave,
Yes, I mean 23.98, I’m in the US. I also forgot to mention the footage is SD and the delivery medium will be NTSC DVD that I would like to be 24p. The footage will also be archived on a NTSC DigiBeta tape.The film is an old Russian war film captured at 25fps PAL that originally was designed to be shown at 24fps. I would like to be able to work with a 24 (23.98) fps project. Thank you for your help.
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In this situation window burn is not a good thing. This is a film from 1933 that for whatever reason the only version I have to work with has the timecode burned into the lower left of the frame. It cannot be cropped out without losing a lot of the image. I have decided to go into Adobe AE and use the wire removal tool. I was able to remove the time code but there is a slight blurry area that I just have to make look as good as possible. I know there is no way to totally seamlessly remove the unfortunate window burn. Thanks for your help.