[Jeffrey Mcmahon]

Like I said, it was shot at 23.98pA and thanks to a variety of time code breaks and tape glitches, certain pieces of footage will not digitize properly using Advanced Pulldown Removal. I’m talking about things like a five minute chunk of 29.97 footage in the middle of a tape that’s otherwise in 23.98, or 3 minutes at the end of the tape, etc.

I did have some luck with a stretch of footage by digitizing it directly at 23.98 instead of at 29.97 using advanced pulldown removal. However, that only worked for a few minutes of footage and then the cadence shifted resulting in several minutes of unusable frame-blended shots.

Anyway, I need further information. I am obviously not intending to ‘just hope for the best’, I’m asking what tools are usable in an online setting to fix clips such as these that are stubbornly refusing to behave according to the tools that I’ve tried already. My current strategy is to continue until the film is closer to being finished (say, cut down to a 4-hour version) by which point there will be only, say, half an hour of problematic material instead of my current 8 hours.

[Jeffrey Mcmahon]

Thanks to both of you for your pointers. Here’s the update:

When I use the Remove Advanced Pull-Down feature in FCP, I either get an error message (“File does not contain frames encoded using Advanced Pulldown”) or I get clips with ugly-looking interlaced frame-blending.

Likewise, I tried Reverse Telecine in Cinema Tools, attempting a variety of different cadences, and every time got ugly interlaced images.

Capturing individual shots within my problematic footage worked on a couple of tapes, but not all. On several tapes, no matter how small of a clip I captured, the footage persisted in coming in as 29.97 when digitizing using the 29.97 Advanced Pulldown tool.

So my next question is, assuming that I’m combining 29.97 footage into my 23.98 project for the offline edit, how difficult is it going to be to resolve this problem in the online stage?

[Jeffrey Mcmahon]

I downloaded MarkerTool and I’m sorry to say that I’m completely confused as to how to use it. I exported an XML of a clip with markers; then in MarkerTool I went to ‘Lift Video markers to sequence level’ and at the prompt I selected my XML file. It gave me the error message ‘AppleScript Error Can’t make {} into type integer. (-1700).

Am I doing something completely wrong? Thanks for any help.

[Jeffrey Mcmahon]

All markers are being made to the subclip in the viewer from the browser.

I duplicated my project so I still have the previous version, but I’m going to need to move forward eventually because right now it’s not letting me copy the sequences or move clips from one sequence to another without breaking the link to the marker date.

[Jeffrey Mcmahon]

These aren’t sequence markers, but markers placed in subclips and then strung out into sequences. The red triangles are all there in the sequence, but under certain circumstances when I match-frame, the revealed source subclip will not have them.

When I first noticed this, my work-around was to take my original subclip or master clip with markers, and make a new subclip. After that point the match-frame relationship would work, but today my discovery was that if I copied the sequence to a new bin, or moved it out of a bin into the project, things got screwy.

[Jeffrey Mcmahon]

I am having the same problem as Lucia and would love a resolution. Along a similar line, I was trying to find a way to import multiple clips into ReadXML simultaneously and get a batch file out, but it freezes up – is this possible in some way?