I'm about to capture a tape and I have a question that I don't know the answer to. I'm just going to capture the whole tape and cut it up after that.

My questions is.....can I workaround pull down 24p the whole clip at once or does the start and stop of the camera affect the pattern of the interlaced and progressive frames?

P.S. I put this in the HV20 forum because that's the camera I'm using.

i havent tried yet but my understanding is that every stop and start of the camera it begins at an arbitrary part of the 24p cadence, so you have to capture by scenes and do the inverse pulldown on each video separately

i havent tried yet but my understanding is that every stop and start of the camera it begins at an arbitrary part of the 24p cadence, so you have to capture by scenes and do the inverse pulldown on each video separately

That's what I believed/thought also, but I wanted to see if someone knew for sure. Looks like I'll probably just have to pull down individually.

some applications can find pulldown cadence breaks automatically (JES Deinterlacer for example) so you could theoretically deinterlace one long capture file...