PC: 24p capture and pulldown removal step-by-step instructions by Farnsworth

[jmcomp124]

This was probably covered earlier. But the virtualdubmod error is AVIsynth open failure "There is no function named TFM". The avs file looks like below.
Probably a missing path or dll. Please tell me what I should try to fix this error?

v=MPEG2Source("G:\Videos2008\FirstCapture\Clip 001.m2t_.d2v")
a=MPASource("G:\Videos2008\FirstCapture\Clip 001.m2t_ MPA PID 814 DELAY -228ms.mpa")
audiodub(v,a)
TFM(d2v="G:\Videos2008\FirstCapture\Clip 001.m2t_.d2v")
tdecimate()
DelayAudio(-0.222)

[jmcomp124]

Ok. I copied tivtc.dll to the avisynth plugin directory and looks like I am beyond that point. Now I am stuck with
"Could not locate decompressor for format Yv12(unknown).
Virtual dub requires a video for windows vfw compatible codec...."

What next?

[jmcomp124]

Ok. Installed divx and that solved the issue. Now I can see a mostly nice video in virtualdubmod, but there are some white artifacts on the right side of the video (I would say 40% have these white flickers...fuzzies whatever).
Is this a known issue?

[jmcomp124]

I followed the tutorial here
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/0...box360appletv/
but I am still not able to get 16:9 footage after pulldown removal.

At step3, at this point I get the error "Vegas platinum does not support frame sizes greater than 1440x1080. According to the tutorial, there is a workaround but it appears not to work.
Is it because I have ver 8.0c build 136?


--------------------
"Once Huffyuv is selected, hit “Configure”, which is a button next to it. In the new window popping up, select for “RGB compression method” the “<-- Convert to YUY2” option. Hit “ok” in that window to go away. Back to the main “Custom Template” dialog, hit “ok”. "
-----------------------

[jmcomp124]

Reverted back to default version 8.0b and still have the same problem.
How can you help?

[jmcomp124]

I was finally able to get it to work.
I can now remove pulldown with ease, create 16:9 HD videos and make DVDs.
I didn't have to buy Neo HD or HDV.

The two workflows that were absolutely helpful were

http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/0...-24p-pulldown/
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/0...box360appletv/

For future beginners like me, I can say almost all of what you need to know to get started is in the above 2 links. Those links also have information on how to circumvent the limitation of SV Platinum.

[Chodite]

I've searched this thread and don't see a workflow for Final Cut Pro 5
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance!

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

There is no workflow for FCP5. You will have to use either After Effects, or FPC6, or one of the freeware methods described in the link of jmcomp124 above.

[jmcomp124]

There is no workflow for FCP5. You will have to use either After Effects, or FPC6, or one of the freeware methods described in the link of jmcomp124 above.

To make it easy for future beginners like me, it would be great if the first post can be edited with Eugenia's links so people don't have to spend hours reading to finally arrive on it. I can vouch, this method works!

[Mr.X]

Hello, and thank you to Steve, Eugenia and all for the hard work on this. I'd like to try doing the pulldown as well, and followed the instructions, but I'm receiving this "Sylia Script Error" partway through the processing.
Is there a problem using the vdubmod and dgindex that comes with AutoGK, or perhaps I've done something else wrong?
This error comes up after DGIndex does it's thing and about 80% on the overall progress bar.

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Mr.X, are you using Steve's in-vegas script, or the generic freeware method outside of vegas? I've never seen that error before you see. To me, it looks like Vista screwing up. I wouldn't touch Vista with a 2 mile stick for video work personally. It's just not compatible enough.

[Mr.X]

Thanks for your reply. I'm using the method that described on your Blog with Steve's "24p Pulldown Removal Workflow Engine 1.0.0.15".

There's an in-vegas method? I must have missed that.

I thought that others had been able to get it to work in Vista - maybe Steve knows what the error message means.

[Chodite]

For Mac users, FCP has it down pretty smoothly, once you figure out the settings. Below is the shortcut answer. (P.S. I was also able to capture very good quality 1080 video on my Vista box using Windows Movie Maker, which also allowed me to save it to a 1080p clip, which also looked pretty good. I analyzed the clip and it appeared to be a 1080p clip. I have more work to do in the Vista side, but it may be worth pursuing further for someone who has the time).

I am new to the forum and spent many horus reading the various posts on this subject and never really found a good answer. So, I called the FCP tech support and we worked through the process together.

After spending hours getting all of the settings right, I created the attached setup. I had to zip it to upload it, so just unzip and save into the following path on your main hard drive, "Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Custom Settings" and you should be able to see it in FCP when you click on "Easy Setup" and choose "All Formats." After importing your video, just select the video on the timeline and select "Cinema Tools Reverse Telecine" from the tools menu, this will do you reverse pulldown automatically (it detects the cadence automatically). I did the above and it worked great. Enjoy.

Note: I think when I did it initially, the sequence presets were just Apple Intermediate Codec which gave me like a 720 window. So when I did the first capture, I noticed that the editing window disappeared. After a few minutes of playing around, I realized that the workflow settings were not for 1080P. When I changed the sequence preset video settings to Apple ProRes 422 1080p, everything was perfect. The video was amazing! I did some analysis on the video and it was definitely 1920x1080 (not 1440) at 24p.

So I'm able to now see Canon HV20 24p under Easy Setup, after plugging in your attachment
But then my HV20 is no longer detected by FCP6. I get the following msg:

[kungfumaster]

Hi,

Steve's site is down. Can anyone send me a copy of HV20pulldown.exe?

Much appreciated.

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Wait a few hours. It's usually up before a few hours later.

[skulpt]

It's down for me as well. Has it been down for that long now, or am I just hitting a bad time of day? If someone can email me the zip at gdguide@yahoo.com that'd be great. I can even start hosting the file on my site as well as a mirror.

Brian

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Here, attached.

[SenorKaffee]

Recently I got a few general questions how to convert M2T->AVI that are not related to the pulldown process. In theory all information needed is here, but not every user has enough patience to filter it out.

Do you mind if I try to write another FAQ that is not so much centered on pulldown?

[SenorKaffee]

Attached is a really early draft of what I had in mind of a more general M2T -> AVI tutorial.

It´s not really new info, but I wanted to do a german version of this for my blog anyway, so please tell me what you think of the structure.

Screenshots are missing of course and some chapters are still placeholders. But you could already use it to do a batch-convert.

[Rama Kancharla]

Hi All

First of all i would like to thank Eugenia and author of mplayer and lagrith loss less codec.
For more detail please follow the below link

http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/0...-24p-pulldown/

I have followed the Euginia second method for making this tool.

Please down load the Hv20_setup.msi and install on your desk top .

http://www.mediafire.com/?buze0ocikmb

1) It is about 10 mg
2) It is tested on Window xp Pro
3) Double click the msi and intall >> by clicking next.
4)Keep all the default locations.

5) It will create a desktop shortcut.
6) Double click the "HV20" short cut.
7)You will see three butons on the top
Install -- Install the lagarith codec
Configure -- Allows to set the parameters - Follow the instructions
Run - Select one or more files in the top most box and click run
clear - it clears all the log in the bottom box

Middle box will allow you to see the pull down avi files.

if you select more than one file for pull down removal. In the status bar you will see current file being processed.

And the right most box will give you high level help >> please follow the Eugenia link.

This has been done to make our lifes easier .

Please let me know how it worked out. Enjoy.......

FYI:
The install will create HomeVideo folder under your programsFiles and Config and Mplayer under Homevideo and VInput and Voutput folder under mplayer. VInput folder is the location where we keep our .m2t files and VOutput files are the processed files.


Regards
Rama

[Mattsushiba]

Maybe someone can help. I've followed the steps to Eugenia's 24p removal method on my machine(XP Home, 4gb Q6600, Vegas Studio 8 Plat).

I'm sure I followed the steps correctly but when I try the last step of running the workflow on the test video the Processing Job Request seems to hang. In the dialog box it says "Executing DGIndex..." but the progress bar doesn't go anywhere.

Any ideas? Is there another way of downloading a test video? My HV20 arrives on Thursday so I don't have any local test video - just trying to get familiar with this before it arrives.

Thanks to all who have contributed here. This really is a wonderful resource and great community of video hobbyists.

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Follow the step again that deals with dgindex.

[Mattsushiba]

Follow the step again that deals with dgindex.

Thank you!

After you wrote the extremely clear and direct tutorial, i followed it to a t only to get hung up on how to save the test files.

got it now.

[Beric]

I'm a newbie to all this, but I have one question...

If I have a PAL HV20 camera, I don't need to do any of this?

[zcream]

No mate. You are all set to go..