24P Advanced capture, timeline problem

My original footage is is shot 24PA DV CAM. I am using a sony DV CAM deck to capture. I am capturing using the easy setup setting DV NTSC 48kHz Adavanced (2:3:3:2) Pulldown removal. My sequence settings are 720x480 NTSC DV (3:2); NTSC-CCIR 601 DV; Editing Timebase 23.98; Copressor is DV/DVCPRO-NTSC at 100% quality; Audio is 48kHz-16-bit-Config: default. Field Dominance is grayed out.
I ran a series of 16 second test captures which when loaded into my timeline came up with the olive green stripe in the video portion of the render status line. I know that I can edit with that as that is just a reduced resolution, but when I capture longer clips (minutes in duration) those clips show orange in the render status bar of the same timeline. I also notice that the short clips come into the machine with a field dominance of none, but the long clips have a field dominance of even.
I must make sure that my final edit can go to film.
How can I get the clips to go into the timeline with a gray or olive green render status?
Steven Kemper

Thanks for the welcome, Shane. It's great to be here. To answer your question. Yes, I did use easy setup (I needed to check the show all box to get to the 2:3:3:2 advanced pulldown removal option. I even went back into all the settings windows to quadruple check that everything "took" correctly. I am completely baffled as to why a 16 second clip captured under the exact same settings and via the exact same method (capture now) as a 9 minute clip would come into FCP with different properties. The short clip loads into the time line with the olive green in the video portion of the render bar and with a field dominance of NONE in the properties data. The long clip loads into the timeline with an orange render bar and a field dominance of EVEN. This all with me having done the captures back-to-back without touching any settings. All I did was rewind the tape to roughly the same start point, hit the play button and re-engaged the capture now system. What could I be missing or inadvertantly doing wrong?

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I've been working with 24PA footage from a DVX-100A and an HVX-200 for three years now. I do find it tricky to get the Advanced Pulldown Removal to work properly during digitizing.
Now, the following advice relates ONLY to footage shot in the 24P Advanced mode. I have never worked with footage shot 24P "regular pulldown." I think you're supposed to just capture and work with that footage in 29.97 mode, enjoying the 24p "look" but not a true 23.98 frame rate.
Any little interruption - the camera stops for more than 15 minutes being the most common - will break the cadence of the 24p pulldown. So you have to break up your tape into clips which don't cross these "cadence breaks."
Also, some VTRs and cameras seem to work better than others. There's not always rhyme or reason to this (more expensive may not equal better performance.) For example, right now, I have some footage which my Sony DSR-11 deck was choking on but my friend's Sony FX-1 camera plays back for capture just fine.
My method is to rewind my shoot tapes to the begining, hit "play" then "Capture now."
FCP captures the whole tape, breaking up into clips, sometimes at inexplicable but always consistent places.
Usually, the last clip captured will be at 29.97 frame rate. The 24p "look" is still present in the footage, but obviously if you cut it into a 23.98 fps sequence, you'll have to render - a very annoying waste of time.
I observe the in and out points of any 29.97 clips, and capture new clips based on them. For example, if I get:
TAPE 001 TC IN 1:00:32:19 TC OUT 1:29:57:22 RATE 29.97
I make a new clip and capture it (batch capture if you like):
TAPE 001 TC IN 1:00:35:00 TC OUT 1:29:55:00 RATE 23.98.
The bottom line, though, is the more suitable your equipment, the better results you'll get.
Good luck. I hope this helps.

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hi, folks...
posing an old question that was never completely resolved because i've bumped up against it again.
here's the situation: i've shot and edited hours of footage at 24p advanced on a canon xl2. captured using 2:3:3:2 advanced pulldown removal without problems-- edited nicely into sequence.
but somewhere along the line something happened. now when i capture 24p footage and edit into the timeline i get motion blur every fourth frame (the pulldown frame?) the only way i can get a clean clip is if i capture 23.98 footage using the DV NTSC (30 fps) setting rather than 2:3:3:2 pulldown, then use the "advanced pulldown removal" feature from the tool bar after the fact (thanks patrick for this work-around).
so... situation is i can deal with this funky capture issue but it's an extra step and a pain in the rear-- anyone have any theories on how this happened and/or a permanent fix so i can shoot and capture the way fcp is supposed to work?
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might force the change in procedure, like a quicktime
update perchance, ipod update maybe???? just fishing
for a clue......
thanks, zeb... but no. i do remember the day things went haywire-- i captured footage off one of the reels and noticed two of five clips had captured at 29.97 instead of 23.98. it was puzzling but i went back through capture presets, sequence, etc and remember double checking and resetting all the pertinent settings before going back and recapturing the footage that had come in a 29.97. it then captured at 23.98-- but the every-fourth-frame motion blur issue cropped up at that point. and it's been happening ever since.
i know the fcp settings are correct -- i just don't get it.
fyi... i notice that as footage plays out through the firewire from the xl2, it looks fine in the camera viewfinder but i can see the motion issues on the log and capture window as it plays-- this is obvious even before initiating capture.

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I shot some footage in 24P advanced. When I capture into FCP4 (settings are 23.98 timecode, 2:3:3:2 pulldown removal), the video and audio become out of synch (in the canvass -- I haven't bothered dragging anything to the timeline yet).
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Was the camera set at 24p 2:3:3:2, or just 24p 2:3. If it was set to 2:3, your capture settings with easy setup will simply be, DV-NTSC. If it was set to 2:3:3:2 your settings for footage from an XL2 should be Easy Setup - DV-NTSC (23.98) Advanced Pulldown Removal, and you capture setting will be changed to DV NTSC 48 kHz Avanced 2:3:3:2 pulldown removal. This captures at 29.97 (DV NTSC) and puts your footage into a 24p timeline.
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Hi there. If anyone who can help me with this issue I would greatly appreciate it.
Ok so I am using a Panasonic DVX100a and shot a bunch of footage. I shot it in 24p advanced. I'm using Adobe Premiere CS4 and captured the footage via firewire into a DV 24p sequence. I'm able to edit it fine but am having sever problems with the picture quality. here's what's going on:
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I *kinda* solved my problem. Not really. I went through my footage, frame by frame, and when it's interlaced, only the 4th frame is interlaced. the other 3 frames are progressive frames. This is in 24pa. Anyways, when i captured my footage, I captured one long file. I then chopped the long file into small "scenes" to move around the timeline. What''s wierd is that if I interpret footage to my one long, captured file and remove 24p pulldown, ir removes the interlaced frames on some of my scenes and PUTS IN interlaced frames in other scenes. You would think since it's one long, captured file, that by interpretting the footage and removing the 24p pulldown it would effect the all clips evenly. But no, it doesn't. When I don't check the remove pulldown box, then the clips that didn't have interlaced frames now do, and the ones with interlaced frames don't have them anymore. It's wierd - it's like Premiere is automatically removing the pulldown on some parts of my captured video file but not others. Does this make sense? Has anyone else experienced this??

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Sometimes I have a similar problem. I shoot advanced 24p on my XL-2 and capture using the pulldown removal setting on FCP -- but when I get there the footage needs render. Honestly -- I would try just re-capturing and making sure all the settings are correct. Before I do anything in my project file I always change the EASY SETUP to universal Pulldown Removal settings. That way, I'm positive it will be capturing into the correct timeline setups, etc.

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to be clearer: I am going to edit my project in a 23.98 timeline.
Ok... then we need to make sure the footage is converted properly to 23.98 because once it's on tape REGARDLESS of what you shot -- it WILL be 29.98.
I have brought in some of the footage that I shot at standard 24p/ F5 via the DV-NTSC easy set-up, and made a 29.97 test sequence in the "project" that I put that footage in. I have not as yet converted any of that standard 24p footage as yet via Cinema Tools, but when I do it is my understanding that I'll be able to then use the footage in the 23.98 timeline
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Also -- check the item properties for the captured material.
email me offline if you get too confused. Might be easier to walk thru it on iChat.
CaptM

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OK, I think you've managed to confuse me too. But, if I can guess at what's got you tied up...
In shooting 24P Advanced, the tape speed is actually 29.97. The camera adds pulldown in such a manner - Advanced Pulldown - that FCP can strip out the extraneous frames without the need for Cinema Tools. That preset is the DV NTSC 48 kHz Advanced (2:3:3:2) Pulldown Removal and it produces a 23.98 file in your Browser. But not an anamorphic file.
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