telecine interlacing problem with 3:2 pulldown in final cut
by matt pellowski
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Aug 25, 2008 at 5:34:50 pm
Hello, I shot a documentary using the panasonic sdx-900 shooting at 100 speed on dvc-pro medium sized stock. We did NOT shoot advanced mode but on the standard 29.97 mode with the "24p look" I am now editing in final cut under the settings of compressor dv/dvc pro - ntsc, (as because we did not shoot 50 speed I believe this is the correct setting) I also have the sequence settings set to the 3:2 720 x 480 size preferences. I am experiencing interlacing now because of the pull down (3 frames are fine, 2 frames interlaced, 3 frames fine, 2 frames interlaced) my question is how do I fix this problem? I really cannot recapture and I have been working on this project for over a year in post now and I am fairly bummed out because I was originally working with a crt monitor which did not display the problem in the past and I only discovered this when using a lcd monitor...is there an easy way to fix these problems? I am at the stage where I need to export clips to motion for slow down and speed up effects and also CGI and I am a bit stuck now with figuring a way around this, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Re: telecine interlacing problem with 3:2 pulldown in final cut by Michael Sacci on Aug 25, 2008 at 6:56:08 pm
well if you shot in 29.97 - 24p (and not 24pA) the interlace you are seeing is what should be there. You shoot this way if you want to mix the 24P look in a 29.97 timeline. The 24pA is used when you want to remove the pulldown and edit a 23.98p timeline. So if you are staying in a 29.97 timeline you have to have the pulldown and it has to mix interlaced fields.
That being said, you probably should be posting this in the FCP forum instead of the DVDSP forum.
