[Therman Mermehn]

ok after a bit of googling this might have something to do with pull down flags on the dvd? supposedly i need a way to remove them when ripping the video but I’m not quite sure how to do that.

[Therman Mermehn]

this is what the dvd file looks like

[Therman Mermehn]

ok i think i understand 3:2 pulldown a bit better.

it would seem it changes between shots/scenes as to where the 3:2 pulldown begins

may I ask how does the dvd footage play normally on the pc , but then when ripped it’s ripped incorrectly?

[Therman Mermehn]

The way they do it is they rotoscope the guy in the foreground who is not out of focus by very much in the actual shot, they add the wipe transition in the negative space after the rotoscope like normal. Then they blur him (the foreground) more so he appears to be farther out of focus than he was.

So basically they just use a normal wipe transition with a blurry section of video in the foreground covering the split. Least that’s what it looks like to me.

[Therman Mermehn]

Honestly I don’t know a whole lot about variable frame rate file or codecs in general and any help would be great.

If this helps at all , the footage is stand alone video files that I simply want to have a consistent frame rate. They won’t be mixed together or anything. And it’s ok if the overall speed becomes faster when duplicates are removed , I just need every frame to change one after the other.

[Therman Mermehn]

Ok I gave handbrake a try

Firstly it seems handbrake doesn’t support wmv , so I converted the file into h.264. The converted file seems to have the same frame rate issue so at least I copied the problem. When running it through hand break it seems to also either copy the problem when set to 30fps , or , when set to 24fps it output a 24fps video that it actually more 15fps.

I could see how handbrake not working with the original file could be the issue, however…

I think the wmv I’m working with isn’t variable frame rate , to my eye , it genuinely look like a standard 30fps file with the frames messed up. When playing the file back I can tell it’s not 30 to begin with. And not quite as smooth as a 24fps movie.

I wish that “duplicate frame remover” script was a bit more developed as that would really help out the most.

[Therman Mermehn]

I used vlc to read the media information and it says under codec info

Stream 1
Type video
Original ID:2
Codec: windows media 9 (wmv3)
Resolution: 1280×736
Display resolution 1280×720
Frame rate: 30.000030
Decoded format: planar 4:2:0 YUV

Also , I was able to get “Duplicate frame remover” to work in after effects , however , it’s removing too many frames. With the software being so old and not having many versions I can see how it might not work very well.

[Therman Mermehn]

the gpu doesn’t really matter as premiere takes advantage of better cpu’s or a good gpu. you could have gpu based rendering but thats pointless if you have multiple cpu’s they’ll be much faster.

So long as the gpu is modern and can output at the resolution you want most anything will do.

[Therman Mermehn]

you can also take 60fps footage , drop it to 33.3% , then frame blend it to get smooth 1/3 speed rather than just 1/2 speed.

[Therman Mermehn]

Go with a used dual xeon , the more cpu’s you can add the better. Adobe is a program that thrives on several slower cpu’s rather then a few faster ones.

For 5-600 you can easily get a dual 1366 board and two x5650-x5690’s. Load the machine down with ram too and make sure you have six sticks of any size so it will run in at least triple channel mode.