Black Magic /Quicktime/pulldown/digibeta issues. Please help out.

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JCVR

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Situation: I recently had film telecined at 24fps, dropped onto digibeta, then captured with a black magic card via final cut -- at which point I was handed a hard drive with 28gigs worth of 18minutes of digibeta footage in an uncompressed quicktime format with a supposed 3:2 pulldown in place.

The Issue: When I take the quicktime into vegas (mind you I've downloaded the black magic 4.8.1 vegas patch or whatever) it reads the footage at 29.97 intelaced with no pulldown. I know that a pulldown exists because when i take the footage into After Effects and guess a pulldown it comes up with a frame rate of 23.976. I would just dump all of the quicktime files into AE and then output an uncompressed AVI at the proper framerate, but it seems that I gain some grain in the process...

Do any of you have any idea why Vegas 6 isn't reading the quicktime pulldowns? a way around this? any suggestions? deadlines approaching.... heh.

All help is appreciated! Thanks guys
 
someone has to have had a similar problem, is there a way to force vegas to detect a pulldown?
 
Try to do a sample render at 23.976 setting of your footage. All normal footage shot should still have the pulldown burned in and see if Vegas will find it during rendering to mpeg 2. If you have Architect then see if it comes across there. All 24p is really 29.97 footage with the pulldown installed.
 
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