TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress & Pulldown - Part II

[pascalbrown]

thanks for the numbered points, makes following instructions so much easier. I'll give this a blast when I get home now that I've got the software. Currently I'm far away from my main box though so will report back next week.

[acoustiking]

Nice work if it removes the pulldown properly.

Here's some good backup that pulldown is being done right. Also, this is good to see for those who are still a little blurry why pulldown is needed, and what the camera is actually doing when it is filling in the ~5 frames each second when recording 24p to a 60i format.

Clip recorded in 24p mode. More fun with screen capture! (in .swf format again, use the above link in the original post for a free player if you don't have one already)

Frame by frame advancement of the raw footage in the editing timeline captured from the HV20 in Vegas. Notice the interlaced "ghosting" when the camera is filling the frames.
http://hv20.info/yopu/TMPGEnc.60i-24p.FxF.swf

Frame by frame advancement of the same clip with pulldown performed by TMPGEnc in the editing timeline imported back into Vegas. The pulldown was done correctly, and if you downloaded the clip in the original post, you'll see that it's smooth as well.
http://hv20.info/yopu/TMPGEnc.24p.encoded.FxF.swf

[Farnsworth]

One question before I give this a try...

Will it batch process? When I have a whole tape full of clips, I don't want to process them one at a time.

[acoustiking]

Will it batch process?

Yes. I just add the whole folder with the clips, from scene detection, and go through all the steps.

I just did a batch of 54 clips equalling about 40m of footage, and for some reason two clips were strange during playback (slow motiony and choppy). I just reran the two clips and will go to town on my editing soon. Of course it takes a bit to load them all, and the processing takes some time...nothing crazy. Correctness & automation is my attraction to this. Plus for a $100, the program does ALOT more to top it off. It has pretty simple RGB, YUV, etc color correctors in which you use sliders to "correct" the clip(s). I had some older footage shot under florescents that was yellowish, and I batch ran the clips, "fixing" them all. Now When I can find the time to put it together, color correcting is done.

[Kilgor270]

Good Work!


I also revisted this app and after careful analysis I concur it does work!. I was wrong in the Part 1 of this thread. My inital problem was playing back the newly created clip on the timeline in CS3. Initially it appeared as if it needed rendered again by Premiere. I now know that that was caused by me and not TMPGE.

My last detail to check is file size. Can anyone compare the original capture vs the processed clip?

Thanks

Kilgor

[acoustiking]

My last detail to check is file size. Can anyone compare the original capture vs the processed clip?

Misc 1:38 clip I just processed:

original 317mb
clip with pulldown 315mb

[pascalbrown]

Misc 1:38 clip I just processed:

original 317mb
clip with pulldown 315mb

Can you confirm what the input clip was (m2t?) and what codec/settings you used, because this is the first time I've seen a smaller file size after pulldown! Thank you.