Sean Oneil
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[David Jones] “Should I transfer the film to 720p or 1080p(since it was shot at 24 frames), edit it in progressive mode, and then out put to 1080i, or just transfer it to 1080i to begin with?”
Edit in 23.98p. Absolutely, positively, no question about it. To do otherwise means you will have cadence breaks within the 3:2 pulldown. This can be disastrous and may not even pass the QC requirements for some broadcasters. Consumer television equipment will not be able to deinterlace it properly without a clean 3:2 pulldown pattern. Plus, you’ll also have more difficulty doing speed changes and other effects if it’s interlaced w/ pulldown.
When you’re ready to master, outputting you final edit to 1080i w/ clean pulldown is simple and automatic with any Kona or Blackmagic card.
Sean
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No problems so far.
Sean
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Release notes are vague (typical). It says improved compatibility with 3rd party software.
I’m guessing 7.4.1 addresses the horrible issues people were having with 7.4. Trying it now, but I’m one of the lucky ones who didn’t have problems with 7.4.Sean
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[Mike Mallen] “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.”
No, it only does this if you select the blend fields option in the “Project” . Instead choose “Use bottom field” and make sure “Adaptive” is checked. It will perform a proper weave deinterlace (combining matching fields while throwing away frames with mis-matched fields).
On the input tab, there are options to “remove jaggies” and “reduce noise”. You can experiment with those if you want.
Sean
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Quick question. What if there are cadence breaks within the program? Does it handle that?
Sean
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Ugghhh. You’re gonna make me find the link. Hold on…
Here, it was Apple discussions, not the Cow:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6487028�Sean
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Yes, it’s in the deinterlace drop down in the frame controls tab. All my tests look great so far. You can batch it all without the A frame fiasco”
Sweet, I’m checking it out tomorrow. I did read here though that it doesn’t work with the new Kona drivers for Leopard. But I’m on Tiger still so I’ll check it out.
Sean
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Compressor has a reverse telecine option in it now. I think it automatically detects the cadence and removes PD automatically. I think.”
Say what!?! I’m gonna have to check this out.
Sean
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That’s a tough one to answer. Try this: Google and download JES deinterlace. Rather than trying to do a reverse telecine, just use JES to do a regular smart deinterlace. Then you’ll have clean 30p footage to work with and no worries of mixed field issues.
Now that you have progressive-scan footage, you could drop it in a FCP sequence (23.98), render it, and export a self-contained QT. This would essentially remove 6 frames every second in even intervals. I haven’t tested it or done the math, but I believe that would leave your true 18fps intact. So you’d be good to go. Try it out.
Sean
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[Michael Black FCP] “So, is there an easy way to convert a 23.98 project to 24, without totally throwing off the hundreds (thousands) of audio clips that are in the timeline?”
Can you explain in more detail what you are trying to do? I don’t think you can switch from a 23.98 project to 24.00 mid-project. Normally when your finished with the project, you would simply export a Quicktime and conform it to 24.00 using Cinema Tools. This will slow down the audio appropriately.
Sean