GH1 Pulldown Removal using FCP / JES Deinterlacer / Compressor

[Kellar42]

I am testing both and having big trouble with JES staying open and working on all the clips, so giving compressor a whirl. Seems to think it'll take about 8 minutes for 30 short clips.

[Ivan Lee]

I tried EVERYTHING you described on the compressor tutorial, but all I get is a very, very HUGE file with 29.97fps

What am I doing wrong?

[Ivan Lee]

I found a option in FCP "Tools" Reverse Telecine, I just clicked there and it gave me a exact 24fps vid! too easy to be true?

[Ben_B]

I tried EVERYTHING you described on the compressor tutorial, but all I get is a very, very HUGE file with 29.97fps

What am I doing wrong?

You probably set the FPS to 29.97...you need to set it to 23.97 and do so manually as it is not one of the listed options.

[Ivan Lee]

You probably set the FPS to 29.97...you need to set it to 23.97 and do so manually as it is not one of the listed options.

I am 100% sure that I set the FPS manually to 23.97

I'll try to post some print screens, this is very weird...

[rundavids]

How long does it take to remove pulldown in Compressor or JES for 2 minute clips that are 1080p?

I have a Macbook Pro 2.4 Intel Core 2 Duo with 7200rpm harddrive.

[Ben_B]

I like using compressor more because it seems more reliable to me...best way to find out how long it will take for you is to try it!

[rundavids]

Thanks for replying Ben. I'm thinking of buying the Panasonic GH1 for it's video. The quality I've seen on Vimeo is awesome. I wanted to ask if editing the GH1 footage is easy in FCP. I keep hearing things about how difficult it is to work with AVCHD codec.

[Ben_B]

You have to transcode it to use it in FCP, which takes a fair amount of time and a whole lot of hard drive space (about a gig a minute) but once that's done it works with the transcoded footage just fine...for 1080p footage you'll need to remove the pulldown with compressor...this is also pretty time consuming, but it all depends on how fast a computer you have. Once that's all done though it should all edit really nicely on a variety of hardware.

[max99]

Thanks for posting the pulldown removal workflow that FINALLY worked for me!

I was given QT movies that were already captured in FCP after having been shot on an HVX200 in 24p (not 24pA). I needed to edit them in a 24p timeline. I received some helpful suggestions as to removing pulldown using Cinema Tools and Compressor. However, while both workflows exported a 23.976 clip and seemed to remove pulldown, the video had nasty artifacts no matter what cadence I tried in Cinema Tools. (I believe Compressor detected cadence automatically).

The clips exported using JES Deinterlacer were smooth, with no artifacts.

Thanks!