Issues with transfering Film into FCP
by Filmcutter
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Jun 28, 2006 at 6:24:24 am
Hopefully someone who understands film can help me a bit here.
I have a finished mixed student movie I mad a number of years ago. It lives on Digibeta (yes, it's NTSC).
I want to re-edit it in FCP and put it on a DVD. Therefore, I want to import it into FCP at the best uncompressed resolution possible (which I assume I would have to do using a Kona card or something) into a 29.97 sequence.
As a test, I made a DV clone of the digibeta and imported that into FCP.
However, I noticed that the edits frequenty seem to have two merged fields. Seeing as digibeta is an NTSC format, I assume this is the two separate fields that make up the image. However, I never noticed it when I watched the video tape (even frame by frame)...
How do I get rid of these? I don't want to de-interlace the movie, cause that will throw away half the picture information in each frame.
Or, is this a pulldown issue? (remember the original was film and I had the final print telecined to Digibeta.) If it is a pulldown issue, how can I remove (or add) the extra frames without affecting sync?
Someone told me that the only reason I am seeing the merged field is cause the mac is progressive and the NTSC tape is interlaced. He said I should just edit the movie and when I spit it back out to DVD those merges will vanish. However, that also doesnt seem right. When I watch a real Hollywood movie on DVD on my Apple, I dont see those merged fields. Why would I only be seeing them when I watch my movie?
And, if they are left alone with the assumption they will vanish when I output back to DVD, do I have to worry about changing the cadence of the fields when I re-edit the movie? In other words, if they occur every five frames, and I remove two frames will that screw up the rest of the movie?
If anyone can help, I would appreciate some advice (or, if anyone knows an expert I can call it would help me).
Re: Issues with transfering Film into FCP by Jerry Hofmann on Jun 28, 2006 at 11:41:05 am
Seems to me that what you are seeing when you stop the video playback are frames that are interlaced and contain two fields that are of different frames of the original film... which would be normal. It's not on EVERY frame right?
I really don't think you have a problem, but you could remove the redundant fields with Cinema tools or directly from the modify menu in FCP... removing the pulldown pattern and then working in 24fps is gonna make life nice in many ways as well. You can burn the DVD as a 24fps file and the DVD players out there will add back the pulldown. (that's what those Hollywood films do you reference)
