[Tig] A stupid 3:2 question

Simon Burley simon at rpsfilmimaging.co.uk
Thu Nov 8 01:53:04 PST 2007


Robert Houllahan wrote:

> Howday all,
> 
> This has come up from time to time with our direct to disk recordings  
> from our TK suites. If I capture SDI uncompressed into our G5 with a  
> blackmagic card and use the pulldown removed codec, i.e. enable  
> pulldown removal on the card, I have a 24fps quicktime file which I  
> can put into FCP, etc but is it Progressive?

The resulting file should be progressive, ie no combing on moving 
objects. However, the capture tool may need to be told the cadence order 
and the telecine would have to output that order otherwise you'd still 
have the combing on edges.

Simon
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