[Keith Eyrich]

The rest of the footage is the same, 24p of unknown variety. So do I need to set my capture preset to 23.98? Right now I’m just capturing at 29.97.

[Keith Eyrich]

Will change to 23.98, and edit in 23.98 timeline! What should the frame rate be in my presets when I capture the rest of my footage?

[Keith Eyrich]

So for capturing I should use either of the 422 presets? Do I need to edit the presets at all to match the “24p” footage?

[Keith Eyrich]

So I opened a clip in Cinema Tools- clicked reverse telecine, and I “think” it looks better! And it saves it as a new file (.mov.rev) Now that new clip should be ready to be edited in Final Cut now, yeah? I’m just wondering what settings I should use in the reverse telecine pop-up menu (see attached screenshots) and also what capture settings I should use in FCP for optimal quality before running the clips through Cinema Tools to remove the jaggedy-ness. Thanks!

[Keith Eyrich]

I do have Cinema Tools, I’ll try that. So you think it’s something I should worry about fixing once I have the clips captured? Or should I recapture with specific settings before trying to fix the problem in Cinema Tools/Compressor?

[Keith Eyrich]

They are indeed moving around and that’s where the worst of the jagged edge stuff is happening, even in the less contrasty part of the frame. I know some of what I’m describing is indeed just DV noise and grain but there’s something else going on as well that’s more “abnormal” looking.

[Keith Eyrich]

The footage in question could very well be 24PA! I just don’t remember. Could I, in theory, try to recapture some clips at optimal 24PA settings, whatever they would be, and see if that helps?

[Keith Eyrich]

So in terms of logging “individual shots”, by shots you mean segments on the tape separated by the starting and stopping of recording, correct? So if I have for instance, a five minute clip of an actor doing multiple takes, the same pulldown removal can be applied to that whole segment as long as the camera didn’t stop and start recording again, yeah?

I agree that this makes more sense, as the camera used was a rental, so who knows what settings might have been fiddled with when we weren’t using it and which we then missed re-adjusting when it came back into our possession.

Now how do I go about properly removing pulldown from these individual shots? Also do I need to set in and out points? All the shots/clips have generous amounts of stuff (highly technical term) at both the beginning and end of when recording started/stopped, so if the timecode is a wreck (it most likely is) wouldn’t it be just as easy to do the old press PLAY and then click CAPTURE NOW/ESC at the beginning and end of the clips I want?

Thanks!

[Keith Eyrich]

Here are the screenshots of my presets, as well as one of the footage in question. I just opened it with Quicktime and shift/command/4’ed, I didn’t export as image from sequence because I thought that might not be as accurate. I think you can see what I mean- the door frame in the lower right hand corner of the frame is doing the squiggle vision thing really bad, as is the box she’s holding, and there’s generally just an unusual amount of pixellation over their faces too.

[Keith Eyrich]

Thanks! Here are your questions and my details-

That could be tough to do. How are you currently capturing the video? Using a camera to capture? A deck? The capture presets already tried? Details, please.

– I’m capturing the video through a little Panasonic PVGS500 via firewire to an ext. hard drive which is connected via firewire 800 to a Macbook Pro. So it’s camera-external hard drive-computer. I tried capturing with the settings on DV NTSC, DV NTSC with the just the frame rate changed to 24p, and then DV NTSC with the “pull down removal”

And you may want to wrack your memory to recall how this video was shot: 24p, 24PA, and whether these tapes have continuous time code.

– It was definitely shot on a Panasonic DVX, most likely it’s 24p, no idea about the timecode.

I have a feeling you’ll end up doing a log & capture of individual shots to make life easier on yourself.

-Well most of what I want to capture is longer segments, like multiple takes, outtakes etc. It’s not that much, not like hours, so batch capturing is fine.

And DV is DV. It’s tough to polish a turd.

-It’s just needs to be free of any major glitches.

Thanks again!