24p Footage from XL2 looks interlaced?

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shred444

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Hey there. I just shot some footage in the woods with a new XL2 in 24P regular 2:3 pulldown Anamorphic mode.

To my understanding, I can capture this footage directly into FCP using 29.97 DV NTSC 48k Anamorphic mode and edit it that way...

But upon closer examination, it seems like the footage looks interlaced. Look at the edges of the trees in the grabs i attached... am I being too picky, or is there something wrong with my capture settings?

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yes and no.

That post explains why the bright red is a bit pixelated...but i'm more concerned with the interlaced looking images on every frame. I'm worried that I'm capturing the footage in the wrong mode, or editing in the wrong mode
 
did you try a chroma blur to see? that red sure is bleeding on your shirt, and your in low light, high contrast situation. Actually its FCP Color Smoothing Filter
 
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Color smoothing wasnt helping.

I hooked the camera up to a TV using Svideo and confirmed that the interlaced issues went away when viewing on a tv.

So it seems that the capture settings are wrong.

This is what I have:

DV NTSC 48 kHz Anamorphic
720x480 NTSC DV (3:2)
Anamorphic 16:9

Anything wrong with this?
 
youre probably viewing the 2:3 pulldown footage on a 60i timebase. that makes the frames look like that. but its all ok. just recapture it with the right settings, and make sure you didint record in 24pa and are trying to caputer in regular 24p.
 
you should be in a 23.976 time line not a 29.97 because the 29 time line isn't going to remove the interlaced frames. Its just taking exactly whats on your tape and displaying it. The 23 time line will discard the few interlaced frames and display correctly. I'm not on a Mac so if this is wrong correct me but I believe that is the universal way to edit 24p.
 
Deep*Life said:
you should be in a 23.976 time line not a 29.97 because the 29 time line isn't going to remove the interlaced frames. Its just taking exactly whats on your tape and displaying it. The 23 time line will discard the few interlaced frames and display correctly. I'm not on a Mac so if this is wrong correct me but I believe that is the universal way to edit 24p.
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Not if he shot it on a 2:3 pulldown. A 24fps timeline knows how to remove 24p advance 2:3:3:2.
 
Isn't that the nature of normal 24P footage? Unless you take steps to remove the pull-down, 2 out of 5 frames are going to be mixed.

Use Cinema Tools to remove the 2:3 pull-down from each clip you've captured. I think you will have to edit it on a 23.97 fps timeline after that though.

If you want to edit it at 29.97, I think you're stuck with the mixed frames unless you de-interlace the footage, but I'm not sure how that would look.
 
Cinema Tools can remove 2:3 pulldown. FCP can remove 2:3:3:2 pulldown on-the-fly automatically, but for 2:3 you need to use Cinema Tools.
 
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