Problem with reverse telecine

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Problem with reverse telecine

I'm using Compressor 4 on an older Mac that does not have the rated OpenCL card, but it does work, at least in SD. I reverse tele-cined some 16mm footage and then created an image sequence file as one job. I've done this before on other clips from the same Rank transfer and it worked fine; de-interlaced it and removed duplicate frame, so I had one .TIFF per frame. But I tried the same thing on another clip last night and the image sequence file has duplicated EVERY frame. So, say, 1000 frames gives me a 2000 .TIFF folder. Any ideas?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 17, 2013 11:30 AM

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Russ H

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Feb 17, 2013 3:38 PM in response to BobGitzen

BobGitzen wrote:

I reverse tele-cined some 16mm footage and then created an image sequence file as one job.

From 16 mm footage that had subsequently been digitized?

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BobGitzen Author

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Feb 17, 2013 6:05 PM in response to Russ H

Yes. It was transferred on a Rank Cintel to NTSC format as QuickTime files. I then used Compressor 4 to Reverse- Telecine the file so that it was Progressive without every fourth frame repeated. So it was now 24p. Then Compressor was supposed to convert the 24p to individual .tiff images, one per frame. Instead I got two .tiffs per frame.

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