image quality

I shot a music video on a Panasonic SDX900 I shot it at DVCPRO50 24PA widescreen and then captured the video at DV50 NTSC 29.9997. The footage that I captured looks great, but when I start editing in final cut pro and have layers over images. The image starts getting these white lines around the images I notice it most in shots with a lot of movement and shots that are slowed down. Is it because it was shot at 23.98 PA and then I captured it at 29.997 or is there some other problem with my sequence settings or something?

thanks role

I remember when I asked the master Graeme Nattress about this. He said this about 24pA:

"Much easier and faster to remove pulldown, and can do so without
decompressing the DV, and hence can avoid a DV render to remove the
pulldown, hence potentially better quality.

It's not nicely playable before the pulldown is removed as it just
doesn't look as good as 3:2!"

What I understood him to be saying is that if you're going to finish the project in a 24fps format -- eg. film -- 24pA is better. But if you're staying at 29.97fps (eg. finishing on tape or DVD) and just want the "flicker" look, then 24pN is the way to go.

So if you shot 24pA, my guess is that you should do a reverse telecine on it or it's not going to look very good.

This is the article which formed the basis of Graeme's advice to me:

[www.kenstone.net]



Post Edited (09-06-05 09:52)


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