studiomayer
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Hello everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been reworking a lot of old footage lately (from the time before I knew what I was doing and kept production notes, of course) and I've come across an odd artifact in one of my projects where things tend to go blurry at a specific frequency of frames. I'd be eternally greatful if anyone could help me figure out what's going on here. I've uploaded two clips that show this phenomenon:
On this clip you can see it particularly in the small logo on the back of the laptop:
http://www.studiomayer.com/testshot/Clip 1.mov
And on this clip you can see it very well:
http://www.studiomayer.com/testshot/Clip 2.mov
Both clips were captured as standard drop frame DV footage through FCP and I'm including the footage as it was captured.
Now here comes the tricky part:
It was shot to tape on an HVX200 either at 480p30 or 480p24 (both via 480i60 since I was discouraged from using the native mode at the time). I've got the original project file which has a set of sequences running on 24p (which indicates to me that I was making an attempt at 24p), but the footage has no interlaced frames that I can try to use to determine the pulldown cadence, leading me to believe that I shot it 30p by accident. I've also tried reverse telecine in every possible configuration, both for 24p and 24pA, but nothing has worked. It's also worth noting that when I play the tape on the camera I'm using for capture (sadly not a Panasonic, but I've been more than able to capture 24pA as well as other kinds of footage shot on the Panasonic, so it doesn't seem to be the camera), the artifacting in the camera's monitor as well as the NTSC monitor I have it hooked up to is greatly reduced.
So out of this situation come the following questions:
1. Is this artifacting coming from a mismatch between shooting format and workflow and if so, what capture settings should I be using?
2. Is this artifacting coming from a problem with the camera and if so, is there anything I can do between capture and post to help it?
Hopefully one of you will be able to help me figure this thing out since the dent I've made from banging my head against the wall just keeps getting bigger...
On this clip you can see it particularly in the small logo on the back of the laptop:
http://www.studiomayer.com/testshot/Clip 1.mov
And on this clip you can see it very well:
http://www.studiomayer.com/testshot/Clip 2.mov
Both clips were captured as standard drop frame DV footage through FCP and I'm including the footage as it was captured.
Now here comes the tricky part:
It was shot to tape on an HVX200 either at 480p30 or 480p24 (both via 480i60 since I was discouraged from using the native mode at the time). I've got the original project file which has a set of sequences running on 24p (which indicates to me that I was making an attempt at 24p), but the footage has no interlaced frames that I can try to use to determine the pulldown cadence, leading me to believe that I shot it 30p by accident. I've also tried reverse telecine in every possible configuration, both for 24p and 24pA, but nothing has worked. It's also worth noting that when I play the tape on the camera I'm using for capture (sadly not a Panasonic, but I've been more than able to capture 24pA as well as other kinds of footage shot on the Panasonic, so it doesn't seem to be the camera), the artifacting in the camera's monitor as well as the NTSC monitor I have it hooked up to is greatly reduced.
So out of this situation come the following questions:
1. Is this artifacting coming from a mismatch between shooting format and workflow and if so, what capture settings should I be using?
2. Is this artifacting coming from a problem with the camera and if so, is there anything I can do between capture and post to help it?
Hopefully one of you will be able to help me figure this thing out since the dent I've made from banging my head against the wall just keeps getting bigger...