Cutting 60i @ 23.98, output to 29.97 NTSC

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Poindextr

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I have reached my wit's end and need some assistance. Here's my cutting situation. I am working with footage shot @ 60i. I need to be cutting @ 23.98 fps because I will be outputing to film. However, the problem is, I have horrible interlacing issues.

I have tried every capture combination known to man, and nothing solves the problem. Right now my footage is captured at 29.97 fps with advanced 2:3:3:2 pulldown checked, and then I do a BATCH REVERSE TELECINE through Cinema Tools so I can cut real time in a 23.98 timeline. When I view my footage in the source monitor (outputing to an NTSC monitor) it looks smooth and crisp. As soon as I drop it into my timeline, it becomes extremely choppy. I've tried all three different pulldown methods, and they all look like garbage.

Before I tried this capture method, I captured directly to 23.98 without doing anything with Cinema Tools. This footage was completely useless when outputing to an NTSC monitor, or outputing to DVD Studio Pro.

Can anybody solve this issue? I'm under a very tight deadline, and I really don't want to have to re-capture 15 hours of footage this weekend.

Thanks for your help.
 
Re: Cutting 60i @ 23.98, output to 29.97 NTSC

You want to output to film but didn't shoot it at the correctt frame rate so it requires special conversion. If the footage was shot at 60i then FCP will not do a real conversion to 24fps. You need to use magic bullet, or natress plugins or DV Filmaker to convert from 60i to 24p.

Advanced pulldown is used ONLY with 24pa (F6 scene mode)
Reverse Telecine in Cinema Tools is ONLY used with 24p (F5 mode)
 
Re: Cutting 60i @ 23.98, output to 29.97 NTSC

Unfortunately, I didn't shoot the project. I have just been brought on as an editor in the last two weeks. The biggest problem is that the mode used seems to be inconsistent. Some footage looks great, and other footage (even from the same tape) looks really choppy. So I need some type of fix once the footage has been brought into FCP @ 29.97.

I have tried working with the natress plug-in, and it doesn't make any sense. Perhaps it's because I'm still using the demo, but when I drag the clip into the filter, it all of a sudden become a freeze frame, or it slips way out of sync from where I have it in the sequence. Any ideas?

I cannot be the first person that's been stuck in this situation. Is there any way to work with 60i in a 23.98 fps sequence and not become suicidal?
 
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