[Ken Klipps]

The playback is set to full. I’m still having the problem even upon export. The footage is looking terrible even when I just bring it into Premiere but before I put it in a sequence. Premiere is sensing that the footage is in 29.97 and just using a “discard” de-interlacing method to automatically turn the footage into 30p.

[Ken Klipps]

Jeff, thanks so much for all your help. I have one last question if you don’t mind:

I have the final video exported as a 1440×1080 4:3 .mov using the H.264 codec (I have two versions – one in its native 23.976 and one “pulled down” version in 29.97 lower fields first interlaced that I got from using the pulldown in AE)

I now need to resize the video and compress it to burn onto a DVD using Apple Compressor. I found some tutorials online but even following those steps, the compressed video comes out very bad looking and all the text is blocky and pixilated. Is there a better way to compress to SD for DVD that will keep the video looking good? I know on commercial DVDs the quality is good for what it is even though its brought down from, say 35mm to standard def.

Also, should I use the 23.976 version or the 29.97 version when burning to the DVD? Basically, would it be better to use the pulled down version or let the DVD player do its own pulldown before the video heads to S-VHS?

Thanks again.

[Ken Klipps]

oops, im confusing EDL and NLE. EIther way, would the Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4k work?

[Ken Klipps]

Jeff,

I actually have access to a Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4k. Would this work? My SVHS deck has BNC output. I’m not an experienced editor so I only know NLE as the file format my colorist wants me to send him along with the ProRes. I will want to get the file back into Premiere.

We were hoping to use the Blackmagic to bring the the VHS footage back to digital. Would we then want to remove the pulldown back to 24fps?

[Ken Klipps]

Okay sounds good. I did a pulldown in AE which gave me pretty good results. There are repeated frames as expected but I’m not sure they’ll matter or are visible to anyone who hasn’t been staring at this project for weeks.

How would I go about recapturing to NLE and doing a pulldown removal in Premiere or AE? Thanks for helping!

[Ken Klipps]

I have successfully recorded a VHS from a DVD several times. I’m not concerned about that working. I’m mostly concerned about getting choppiness or having a difficult time syncing back up after the video is run through VHS. I don’t really want to use a plug-in because they always look fake and don’t quite have the same effect as real VHS tape.

[Ken Klipps]

Thanks for the response Shane.

I authored my DVD in 23.976 because that was the framerate of the Premiere sequence. Now that I know SVHS is stuck at 29.98, I will definitely Twixtor the sequence to that frame rate and author in 29.98.

I will be using my friend’s Ultrastudio 4K for the final transfer this weekend, but my client wanted to see how it would look today so I just whipped out my Elgato to send it quickly. In Premiere, the Elgato transfer footage is in 29.98 but its problematic. Beginning to think the Elgato is the culprit.