[Ted Sikora]

Thanks everyone. Even with the sarcasm – very amusing. 🙂

[Ted Sikora]

I did want to let anyone else who finds themselves in this situation (yeah right) know that the end result worked like a charm.

The reason: Avoide the 750 bucks to rent a deck and have it shipped to and from Cleveland.

On the SDX900 camera we have the SDI out option. So we shot 24PA, brought it (SDI)into Final Cut a 29:97 timeline. Final Cut would NOT “interpret footage and remove pulldown.” Still don’t know why.

(on a side note: if you capture SDI at 24 frames you have a 1 in 5 chance at getting rid of the junk frame on the capture on the fly.)

The flow went like this:
Starting with DVCPRO50 24pa footage captured via blackmagic SDI on an uncompressed 29:97 timeline.

1. Edited the entire scene on the 29:97 timeline.

2. Manually deleted the junk frame. On a 90 second piece this took about an hour. It gets pretty rhythmic after a while.

3. Export the timeline as an image sequence series of PSDs.

4. Set still import to “1 Frame”

5. Import the stills

6. Drop them on an uncompressed non-anamporphic 24 frame timeline, render – export as 24 frame DVCpro50 movie file

7. Bring it in to a new bin, set the new file to anamorphic, drop it onto the DVCPRO50 Anamorphic 24 frame timeline and voila.

Lots of steps, but it looks very clean, I know it gets compressed on step 6, but I saw no artifacts and for an evening’s worth of work we saved some serious coin.

[Ted Sikora]

I’m not familier with Cinema Tools. Are you saying that version FCP 5 works better with removing advanced pulldown than 4.5?

[Ted Sikora]

Interestin’ please let us know if you find a link with a press release.