[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

here is my inspector information. do you see any problems?

Name: Reverse Telecine of 3:2 Pulldown
Description: Apple ProRes 422 video with audio pass-through. Settings based off the source resolution and frame-rate.
File Extension: mov
Estimated file size: 1.13 GB
Audio: multi-track passthrough
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: (100% of source)
Height: (100% of source)
Selected: 1280 x 1080
Pixel aspect ratio: DVCPRO HD 1080i (16:9)
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: 23.976
Frame Controls On:
Retiming: (Fast) Nearest Frame
Resize Filter: Linear Filter
Deinterlace Filter: Reverse Telecine
Adaptive Details: Off
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Progressive
Codec Type: Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)
Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: Off
Progressive
Chroma filtering enabled
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 50
Min. Spatial quality: 0
Temporal quality: 0
Min. temporal quality: 0

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[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

Yeah I did. Problem?

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[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

Okay so I tried to do it on one clip and I still got the same error message. I’m not sure what exactly is going on.

I really appreciate your help. Thank you again,
Matt

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[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

also, and I feel like this is a silly question… why is the native field dominance of the clips Top First instead of Progressive? Should I set them to progressive?

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[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

Hey Jeremy,

So I set up compressor to use an Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) at 23.967 fps and set to reverse telecine with 100% of the source frame size. I made all of those settings into a custom compressor setting and applied it to the batch of 30 clips. Then I set up the destination as the source and when I go to submit I get an error message saying that one or more targets are incomplete and that each target assigned to a job must have a setting and destination, however everything is set to the telecine reversal to ProRes 422 and going to the source… any ideas why I’m getting the error message?

Thanks again,
Matt

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[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

Sorry Jeremy. I can’t seem to get this to go. I went into compressor and I can’t find the proper tools to do it.

Right now I have a media managed copy of my cut film. I know that I should have done this all from the start but I hadn’t thought to. I have the entire thing backed up on another hard drive so I am willing to play some hard ball with this and do whatever I have to do to get it right. I’m just not sure what to do. Either Compressor or Cinema Tools, I don’t mind.

I was able to reverse telecine in final cut through Tools>Compressor Reverse Telecine, but it got extremely choppy and still has the interlacing even though the vid rate does say 24 fps. Even so, should it not be 23.976 fps?

Whenever I try to do a batch reverse telecine in compressor it tells me that there is an error because the footage has temporal compression. Is there any way around this?

So you know, I am trying to do this to the original capture scratch files, not a quicktime export or anything like that.

Thanks again,
Matt

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The College of WIlliam and Mary

[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

yeah, that’s the exact cadence and it runs throughout. I’m not too well versed in after effects but i do have CS3. are there any tutorials on how to do it or could you possibly give me a walk through of the steps? i’m more comfortable using the final cut suite so cinema tools or compressor or fcp would be easier for me. i tried to get do it in cinema tools before but when i open up a video file in it, “reverse telecine” is not selectable. any ideas?

thanks,
matt

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[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

Firewire adapters work fine. Sonnet Tech makes a nice one and it’s as dirt cheap as they come.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/438446-REG/Sonnet_FAD_824_6_Pin_FireWire_400_to_9_Pin.html

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[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

If you just import your footage and then place clips in the timeline, final cut will automatically set itself up for your settings.

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[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

I think that i’m going to go with the 2 TB CalDigit VR and run with that in RAID 1 and when I fill that up I can always get new drive modules and keep going. That seems like the most economical way for me now and the best set up for the long run. This way I won’t be spending much over the G-RAID3 and I can still get the other drives that I need. The ability to expand really appeals to me, as does the LCD screen and RAID 1 option of course.

Thanks so much for all of your help!