Hey guys,
I'm pulling my hair out here. We had 3 cameras running at a recent event, all of which were shooting at 23.976 -- we thought. Turns out that a Canon prosumer handheld was shooting "PF24" which Premiere interprets as 29.97. I've already Googled the heck out of this problem, and nobody seems to have a real answer. The common answers are:
1) Just place it on the 23.976 Premiere timeline and Premiere will "fix" it automatically. This does NOT work. You end up with stuttering duplicated frame video.
2) Interpret Footage to 23.976. This does not work either, it just slows down the video.
3) Use After Effects to do a 3:2 Pulldown and "guess" the type necessary until you get it right. This probably does work, but "trial and error" is dumb, and it also assumes you have After Effects, which I don't.
So, for what it's worth, after much headache, I've "solved" this problem by using Virtualdub and the IVTC plugin (with reduce frame rate turned on) to get usable 23.976 AVIs.
However, with that said, I can't believe there's no Inverse Telescine/3:2 Pulldown method in Premiere. I've looked through all the settings and I can't find anything. From Googling it sounds like this is an incredibly common problem -- am I just missing something?
It seems crazy to me that I have to use a freeware program like Virtualdub to do something as simple as coverting 29.97 to 23.976. But thank god it exists, I guess.
Am I missing something? Is there a hidden IVTC option somewhere?
