ADDING pulldown?

[William_Robinette]

Guys, do to reasons now beyond my control, I have to edit together a three camera shoot (sony xdcam-HD) together where:

2 Camera's where recording 24p
1 Camera was recording 60i

As I understand it the XDcam-HD spec for 24p in HQ mode is a native 24p. There is no pulldown at all. I am editing everything on a 60i timeline but when I render back to a 60i MXF the 24p cameras look smeary and juttery, I am assuming because there was no pulldown to begin with and Vegas is trying to stretch the 24p into 30 frames a second.

Rendering the other way (to 24p) the 60i camera of course looks horrible, as expected. Anyone have any solutions around this problem?

 

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Vegas can add 3-2 pulldown during exporting to 60i, if you export in DV-AVI. This might be the best thing to do here.

If you are in HD, there is no way to do that I believe, and you might just create a 24p timeline and add the 60i in there and either force or disable a resample on its clips (depending what looks best).

 

[William_Robinette]

That's the problem. I have to deliver HD. I'll give your suggestion a go though, thanks.

 

[David Jimerson]

If the material is native 24p, then disable the resample for those clips.