Timewarp tutorial for NTSC video to Film
by Chris Wright
on
Jun 27, 2008 at 7:39:10 am
Timewarp tutorial for NTSC video to Film
So, I have been reading creative cow and really enjoy it, and wanted to contribute the best
method I know of turning NTSC 29.97 interlaced footage into excellent film movement and
visual quality. This method takes no shortcuts in visual quality or motion. You will start
from 29.97i and end with 23.976p smooth motion with no jaggies or jerkies.
Here's my workflow for using plugin Twixtor (can use timewarp), Algolith- (can use
fieldskit)
1. Deinterlace with fieldskit motion estimated blend, fill method blend. or Algolith
deinterlace with antialiasing. Algolith looks 100% original. It's the best.( you could
precomp this step or render out beforehand)
2. add new comp -comp1 29.97 and new solid and drop in 29.97p footage below solid.
3. set solid visible on and footage visible off, footage sound off.
4. set twixtor color source to solid and drag solid longer than footage below it a bit
because we're going to slow it down and need more artificial room.
5. twixtor speed 98.75 % (speed diff of 29.97 to 23.976) Motion blur ammount is up to you.
0.2 is 180 shutter equavalent.
6. create new comp -output-23.976 fps
7. drag comp1 into 23.976 comp and drag 29.97p footage from project bin into it.
8. right click-time->timestretch the precomped comp1 to 98.75.(equal to slow down from
twixtor but now film speed sampled temporally at 24 and synced up) don't use frame
blending, we just want a fps change.
9. enable visible comp1 and disable visible footage but footage audio on
10. enable time remapping for footage audio -out comp (it should snap to end video frame although even beforehand should only be a fraction of a frame off anyway. (This confirms your video FPS transfer. ) This step will enable frame accurate sound sync down to 1/1000th/sec.
11. render out fields(off) at 23.976 or add 3:2 pulldown. Its ready for DVD.
It will look so good, yu'll swear its 30p at first until you realize its nicer, its film
speed with no jerky motion or weird lines. Take that DVX 100A.
