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drdespair wrote on 6/21/2002, 12:54 AM
Its something like that much depends on what kind of footage you use, with NTSC pulldown 3:2 is used in order to covert between 24 - > 30 frames/s (60 fields/sec) or its the other way around.. dont remeber now because I work with PAL which is much closer to film 25fps (50 fields/s) There are several ways you can make DV look a bit like film, I read once about a competition that was organized by a group of people to see who could comeup with the best technique, the one that one used field blending instead of all the 3:2 pulldown stuff, of course on top of that you will need to color correct it, and to adjust your whites and blacks.. There is a tutorial on somewhere on the sonic site which gives a good break down of how to work with film + video footage it actauly provides you with a scene in two files, one was filmed with a 35mm and the other in DV(Betacam maybe) since the scene shot is the same (professional lighting) you can play around between the two footages (as the tutorial describes) in order to get the best "film" effect.

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kosstheory wrote on 11/14/2002, 8:18 AM
I looked at your tutorial, and it seems that the processed video clip is much more choppy in playback than the film clip. I don't think that the motion really approximates the film cadence. I've watched it over and over again. Maybe when you recompress it to DV NTSC Vegas isn't actually performing the conversion as you expected, but it deffinately doesn't look like 24 FPS converted to 29.97. I experimented with the process a bit myself, and I found that simply rendering to a progressive file at 29.97 FPS and then back to an interlaced file at 29.97 FPS yields more acceptable results, with or without the noise. Perhaps, perceptually, the progressive imagery does more for the "film look" than the cadence itself. I suggest that anyone who is making a feature should think twice before employing this technique for producing the cadence of film. It reduces the image quality far too much in high motion scenes.