Spent the last two years making a feature-length motion picture. Shot with a Panasonic DVX100A in 24PA mode. Recorded straight to hard drive with DV Rack. Edited all footage in Vegas 5.0, project settings NTSC DV 24p Widescreen.
Got picture lock. Did ADR and got a final audio mix. Printed the footage to MiniDV, then sent it off to a professional color correction facility. The resulting footage looked GREAT. They dumped the corrected video back to DVCAM (their only export option, apparently). Things are looking good.
Nope. Brought the footage back into Vegas to sync it up with the audio mix and render a final version, and guess what? The 2-3-3-2 pulldown didn't take. The video didn't match up exactly, and the motion blurred. Huh?
So I rechecked the properties of the video I had captured from the DVCAM - guess what? The color correction place exported it at 29.97fps interlaced. And apparently that's all they can do. Spent $10,000 on color correction and it seems that they can't maintain the 24p workflow I've established up to this point.
SO - my options are to attempt to color correct it myself (which will look like crap) or to attempt to salvage the 60i/29.97 interlaced video and somehow convert it to 24p so my movie can actually look like a movie again.
Does ANYONE know of anything I can do within Vegas or any third-party software that can convert this crappy interlaced crap to 24p? I've already tried the "reduce interlace flicker" option in Vegas.
And no, please don't tell me to contact the color correction facility and have them fix it. I'm already trying to do that, but the Sundance submission deadline is a week away and I need a Plan B.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Got picture lock. Did ADR and got a final audio mix. Printed the footage to MiniDV, then sent it off to a professional color correction facility. The resulting footage looked GREAT. They dumped the corrected video back to DVCAM (their only export option, apparently). Things are looking good.
Nope. Brought the footage back into Vegas to sync it up with the audio mix and render a final version, and guess what? The 2-3-3-2 pulldown didn't take. The video didn't match up exactly, and the motion blurred. Huh?
So I rechecked the properties of the video I had captured from the DVCAM - guess what? The color correction place exported it at 29.97fps interlaced. And apparently that's all they can do. Spent $10,000 on color correction and it seems that they can't maintain the 24p workflow I've established up to this point.
SO - my options are to attempt to color correct it myself (which will look like crap) or to attempt to salvage the 60i/29.97 interlaced video and somehow convert it to 24p so my movie can actually look like a movie again.
Does ANYONE know of anything I can do within Vegas or any third-party software that can convert this crappy interlaced crap to 24p? I've already tried the "reduce interlace flicker" option in Vegas.
And no, please don't tell me to contact the color correction facility and have them fix it. I'm already trying to do that, but the Sundance submission deadline is a week away and I need a Plan B.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.