HF100, 24p & pulldown/interlacing

[themagichoof]

I hope someone can put some of this into plain English for me. I'm not so experienced with the techy details of how this works. Ok, so I've got a Canon HF100. I always thought it was filming at 24fps truly. Turns out, it works where it's 24fps but inside a 60i wrapper (whatever that is), and shows up as 29.97fps when looking at the media's details.

I use After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro (both from CS5.5). I want to try this for the first time and see if it's going to help with the quality.

1) Do I need to deinterlace this footage when shooting at 24p since it's inside the 60i wrapper to get it to true progressive?

2) How would I go about removing this pulldown/telecine thing to where it will be actual 24fps footage in PPro (or After Effects)?

3) I think there are a couple places to remove this pulldown, so will I have to do it both on the footage itself, and when exporting?

I've never liked using 24p on this camera since it never looked as good as I hoped it would. Maybe it's because of the pulldown thing I mentioned? I want to get this as film-like as possible and the HF100 hasn't been able to get me close to that, so maybe this will get me closer to that film look I want.

 

[Warthog]

i am not familiar with Adobe stuff but you should not deinterlace your footage. Doing that would merge the fields (or drop some of them) and that would prevent you from extracting the 24 fps.

 

[DrDave]

I hope someone can put some of this into plain English for me. I'm not so experienced with the techy details of how this works. Ok, so I've got a Canon HF100. I always thought it was filming at 24fps truly. Turns out, it works where it's 24fps but inside a 60i wrapper (whatever that is), and shows up as 29.97fps when looking at the media's details.]
Short answer, use cineform to do the pull down, simple. You can also beam it in over the HDMI and into a blackmagic card, but Cineform works like a charm for this cam. Use the free trial for your footage. CS5 will do a kind of attempt to pulldown the footage if you dump it into a 24p timeline, but it isn't as good quality as separate pulldown. You can also use after effects, but CIneform is really zoned in on the wrapper pulldown thing.