CGTalk - PullDown issue

PPGINGRAS

08-21-2003, 02:44 PM

Hi guys, this morning i have a little question concerning PullDowns.

Im using Combustion but my question applies to any software.

Here it is:

We are using Maya to model, animate and render.
We animate and render in 24fps.
And we output in NTSC.

So, i have to Pulldown every single shot.

We all know that a pulldown let 3 frames intact and blends 2 frames.

But everytime i pulldown an Odd number of frames Ex: 1293
My last frame is blended with black, so i get an unusable frame because the fields filckers with black.
For now, to avoid that, i just replace the last frame with the one before in my editing timeline.

Is there any trick to avoid the black field filcker when pulldowning an odd sequence?

http://www.station3d.com/lesen/PD_FlickerExemple.jpg

Thanks

PPGINGRAS

beaker

08-22-2003, 04:04 AM

Really simple. Always render a little more than you need. Just like film and any type of editing, you always get a little bit of lead in and out because some is needed for disolves and transitions between scenes.

PPGINGRAS

08-22-2003, 03:12 PM

Well here we work with a very tight animatic, the timeline gets frame accurate from the storyboard to the animatic, to the final frames. So i cant render more frames.

So my problem is that its missing a frame to blend with at the end.

But ill simply copy my last frame 2-3 times so that the last pulldown will have a frame to blend with.

Thanks Beaker, for the next show, ill try to make them understand the needs to render a little more frames.

PPGINGRAS

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