mgalvan
01-07-2005, 10:52 AM
Hello all,
I have a strange problem. I recently shot a short with the XL2 in 16:9 24p (2:3:3:2). When capturing into Final Cut Pro, I used the DV NTSC 23.98 Advanced Pulldown Removal preset and the DV NTSC 23.98 timeline sequence (marked as 16:9). I've always used this method to edit XL2 16:9 24p footage before and never had any problems.
But now something weird has happened. As I was capturing the footage, it was telling me "removing advanced pulldown" as it always does. But when I dragged the captured footage into my timeline, it displayed the red render bar above the footage. I knew this couldn't be right because all my settings were set accordingly. So after thinking a little, I decided to do a test and drag the same footage into a normal 29.97 16:9 timeline and voila! .... it worked perfectly fine, no rendering needed. But why????
I know footage from the camera will work fine in a regular 29.97 timeline, but I captured this footage with the advanced pulldown removal setting. My clips should be 23.98fps and therefore work in a 23.98fps timeline and actually require rendering if put back in a 29.97 timeline. But it is reversed in this case. I tried recapturing the footage again with the pulldown removal and same thing happened again.
I checked my camera settings and I did indeed shoot with 2:3:3:2 pulldown so the settings in the camera were right. Then I tried recapturing the footage again with the same capture settings and this time, half of my footage was fine but the other half still needed rendering ... and all this footage came from the same capture!
I don't understand ... could there be something wrong with my XL2 in terms of flagging the tape with the pulldown pattern? I've had the XL2 since the first week it came out and have used it for some event work in 16:9 30p but now am using it more for film work. This is the first problem I've had with its 24p functioning.
Any insights on why this could be happening??? I've worked a lot with 24p before as I have used the DVX100A plenty times before so my undertanding of 24p is pretty extensive. But this one has gotten me ....
I have a strange problem. I recently shot a short with the XL2 in 16:9 24p (2:3:3:2). When capturing into Final Cut Pro, I used the DV NTSC 23.98 Advanced Pulldown Removal preset and the DV NTSC 23.98 timeline sequence (marked as 16:9). I've always used this method to edit XL2 16:9 24p footage before and never had any problems.
But now something weird has happened. As I was capturing the footage, it was telling me "removing advanced pulldown" as it always does. But when I dragged the captured footage into my timeline, it displayed the red render bar above the footage. I knew this couldn't be right because all my settings were set accordingly. So after thinking a little, I decided to do a test and drag the same footage into a normal 29.97 16:9 timeline and voila! .... it worked perfectly fine, no rendering needed. But why????
I know footage from the camera will work fine in a regular 29.97 timeline, but I captured this footage with the advanced pulldown removal setting. My clips should be 23.98fps and therefore work in a 23.98fps timeline and actually require rendering if put back in a 29.97 timeline. But it is reversed in this case. I tried recapturing the footage again with the pulldown removal and same thing happened again.
I checked my camera settings and I did indeed shoot with 2:3:3:2 pulldown so the settings in the camera were right. Then I tried recapturing the footage again with the same capture settings and this time, half of my footage was fine but the other half still needed rendering ... and all this footage came from the same capture!
I don't understand ... could there be something wrong with my XL2 in terms of flagging the tape with the pulldown pattern? I've had the XL2 since the first week it came out and have used it for some event work in 16:9 30p but now am using it more for film work. This is the first problem I've had with its 24p functioning.
Any insights on why this could be happening??? I've worked a lot with 24p before as I have used the DVX100A plenty times before so my undertanding of 24p is pretty extensive. But this one has gotten me ....