[Mike Mallen]

That was actually my post, thanks again for responding. This is for the same project, but different camera.

The issue with capturing at 24fps is that the DVX100B basically records as if it were film, adding the telecine as it lays it to DV. Which means I have to capture at 29.97, then perform a reverse telecine.

You were correct in saying the quicktime conversion wouldn’t work. This is what I believe is happening…

JES is removing a few of the frozen frames at the beginning and end of the takes (when the camera was stopped and there was a cadence break)

I’m going to trash the JES log and preferences and see if it helps. The strange thing is that it happened with one media file, then I tried it again and it worked fine. On a side note, how would you recommend exporting (direct DV NTSC or Quicktime)?

[Mike Mallen]

Thanks Rafael, sounds good.

[Mike Mallen]

Are you saying that I should export with Quicktime using the ProRes HQ codec? Or convert my footage after locking the picture and reconnecting the clips with ProRes Media, then exporting as a self-contained Quicktime? Probably isn’t going to matter either way (right?), but the latter would be time consuming and disk-space consuming.

[Mike Mallen]

Cool, thanks. I’m planning on using Apple Color to color correct, and if I remember correctly ProRes (HQ) was basically meant for that program, maybe I’ll convert to that.

[Mike Mallen]

So you can actually bring the quality up from a DV/DVCPRO source? (at the expense of the file size)

[Mike Mallen]

I tested the software, it worked well. Thanks!

I also used it for doing a reverse telecine on my 24fps footage, it was simple and quick. I like that it doesn’t require you to tell it what the cadence is.

As far as the 18fps, it successfully created 30p media. After exporting from a 24fps sequence, what I got was 3 progressive frames followed by a 4th frame duplicated from the 3rd.

Thanks again.

[Mike Mallen]

Thanks Sean, I’ll give that a try. My only follow up question would be: how is the smart deinterlace is creating progressive frames?

I would assume it’s blending the fields of the interlaced frames into one progressive image, which would probably result in a slightly blurred frame.

The fact of the matter is that not every frame is going to be crisp when I’m trying to turn 18fps to 24fps, unless I duplicate 6 frames per second. Do you know of any software that allows you to remove specific frames and/or duplicate specific frames?