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Posted by J. Kendrick McPeters on 10/31/05 22:34
onif@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Mike Oniffrey) wrote:
>One important and often overlooked element (of several) to more closely
>attain the film look is to duplicate the 3:2 pulldown effect.
>Film has only 24 images per second, while NTSC video has 30 frames per
>second (60 fields).
>Something must to be done to "spread" the film's 24 images over video's
>30.
>That something is the 3:2 pulldown. A film's images normally reside on
>videotape in the following scheme after a film-to-tape transfer:
>Film frame: 1 2 3 4 4 5 6 7 8 8 9 10 11 12 12 13 14 15 16 16
>Video fr: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
>...and so on.
>Go rent a film from your favorite video store and examine an action scene
>in slo-mo; you'll see it.
>Transfer your videotape the same way, and you'll come a lot closer to
>making it look like film.
>NOW - how to set up an video editor to do this automatically...Hmmm...
>--
>Mikey
>PickTwoVideo
>RTP NC
>[end]
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