Re: VEGAS 7 - DE-INTERLACE Problem with S16MM MINIDV Footage

you need to find the pull down !!.. if you captured whole tape - then you hope the telecine transferred all the 16mm without stopping the machcine to adjust color - if they did stop it during the transfer then the pull down has a very good chance of not being continuous = the pull down cadence will change where ever they stopped to adjust color ..

here's how you get rid of pull down ( you do not de interlace it) and it's totally different then if the clips came from DVX ..

your clip must be a avi ( no QT, mpeg etc) set your project properties to template =NTSC DV 24p 23.975, field order= NONE, film rate =23.976, deinterlace method = NONE ..

make sure you have "Project Media" checked under Vegas VIEW .. vegas ruler set to 23.976..

1)drop clip into TL - zoom into TL so that you can advance curser one frame at a time ...
2) go to project media and right click on clip ( in TL) and select "file format properties"
3) check the box "enable 2-3 pulldown removal" it should be set to 0
4)start at beginning of clip and manually advance one frame at a time - if you see any interlacing then it is NOT correct ( you can see better if you set the vegas preview to FULL )
5) if you saw interlacing then go to #3 and now change 0 to 1
repeat 3 & 4 till you have NO interlace frames while you advance one frame at a time .. once you have gone about 10 frame and see no interlacing then that # is correct ..drop a marker in TL and type in the correct number (0-4) ...

6) now go down the TL 4-5 min and manually advance one frame at a time - if you see interlacing then you know the telecine machine was stopped and restarted and you need to find the new pull down ( repeat 3 & 4)
and you need to find out where it changes the cadence by finding the end of the correct cadence ( go thru clip one frame at a time = use the right arrow key ) ... each time you find the start of a new cadence be sure to drop in a marker with that number ...

at the end you can either render out each cadence to a new clip or get the i/o time code of each cadence and recapture ..

if you broke the capture into individual shots then you just find the correct pull down removal number for each...

CAUTION !! note: when you enable remove pull down it is windows for video that is removing pull down NOT vegas so once you enable remove pull down it will remove pull down ALL the time not just in the current Vegas project but any project you drop the clip into = so if you use a clip 2 months from now in a 29.97 project windows will remove the pull down and then Vegas will see the clip as a 23.976 add pull down to equal 29.97= eats up CPU .. you can uncheck the remove pull down from any vegas project ( but remember it then goes back to 29.97 in ALL projects that the clip is used ...