DVX To AE Formulas

[Ashley James]

I need to be treated like a four-year old so could someone share a step by step workflow for getting 24p (normal, not advanced) footage into AE 5.5 and out to my Media 100i 7.5? I'm letter boxing some 16x9 footage to 4x3 and I get stuttering images when I render out. This would be much appreciated.

[BLUESPIDER]

gee, I haven't used AE5.5 in a long time so I don't even remember how well it handled 24p. What I usually do is just treat my 24p footage like it was 30i. Just import your footage then go to file-new comp from selection, do what ever it is that you have to do and export out as a DV Quicktime, or the media 100 codec if it has one. I always remembering it played back smoothly with no flicker nor glitches.

[Sirius_Doggy]

Ashley - you may want to post a quick question in the adobe after effects forum if you haven't yet. Just ask if ver. 5.5 can handle 24p. It may not.

[Isaac_Brody]

I think you can just hit Ctrl+F (Apple +F on Mac) to interpret your footage. And then under Fields and Pulldown hit Guess 3:2 pulldown. Since you're using 24P normal you should be able to remove the pulldown in AE 5.5, but I haven't used 5.5 in like two years so it might be slightly different.

After that just render it to whatever codec you need. That should do it.

[Scottdvx100]

As mentioned if you haven't removed pulldown have AE guess the 3:2 pulldown. Set comp fps to 23.978.
In output settings change it to add 3:2 pulldown so when you render the movie it will be restored to 29.97 for media 100 (unless you want 24 within the media 100)