Getting rid of pulldown

krb wrote on 11/21/2004, 10:28 AM
I am accessing frames from a 24p movie that has been encoded onto a DVD with the normal 2:3 pulldown (or whatever it's really called).

I would like to render the video as a 24p (or 23.976 or whatever it is supposed to be) file, but would like Vegas to just eliminate the pulldown and reconstruct the frames without blending anything. Can Vegas do that?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 11/21/2004, 10:40 AM
Create a 24p project. That's it. Keep in mind, if it's on a DVD encoded as MPEG, you'll suffer some loss in the transcode from MPEG to avi.
In the media pool, you can remove pulldown there by rightclicking the file, or you can do it on a per event basis as well.
krb wrote on 11/21/2004, 11:47 AM
I tried that and it doesn't seem to do what I want. It is giving me blurry frames in the output every few frames, instead of being smart and detecting the repeated fields.
Spot|DSE wrote on 11/21/2004, 12:27 PM
You're editing MPEG. You're missing frames. This is why long GOP MPEG isn't suited for editing. With MPEG in the equation, coupled with 24P and pulldown, all bets are off inside of Vegas.
Can you load the MPEG into DVDA and just modify in/out points?
krb wrote on 11/21/2004, 4:39 PM
I think I got it fixed. The application that I use to convert the DVD source files into an AVI fake file has an option to "force Movie mode" which appears to do an intelligent conversion back to the original 24p content using the tags in the DVD mpg.

Now when I drop my new source video into Vegas and render a 24p output it looks great...thanks for your help!