ErichLinder wrote:How were you able to determine it was a 3:2 pull-down from film? In fact the original was shot on 16mm film, then transferred to NTSC tape for editing, and the VHS was made from those tape masters.
If you look field by field you can easily see the pattern.
ErichLinder wrote:I have video field processing enabled because I was using filters such as sharpening and others that the manual states need it enabled for rendering when exporting interlaced files.
I would first go to progressive before you apply any filters. And, please, do not use sharpening of VHS sources, there is already enough edge "enhancement" as it is.
ErichLinder wrote: I was going to go back to SD DVDs, so wanted to avoid deinterlacing then interlacing again. Is that still the case, or is the manual not correct that I need to enable it both in the project and in the delivery settings?
Some tools can do filtering with interlaced video but Resolve is not one of them. You would need to go from inverse telecine -> progressive -> processing -> telecine.
ErichLinder wrote:Since I'm capturing, is the best flow still capture at 525i59.94 from the VHS, then remove the pulldown, then into Resolve, ....
That's the best way. But capturing interlaced or telecined VHS footage using 4:2:2 subsampling may be problematic, if possible I would stay with the original subsampling of 4:2:0 for capture.
ErichLinder wrote:One last question, when you say after pulldown treat the source as 23.976p, then I need to export from Resolve at 29.97 for the DVD, correct, or should I let the mpeg encoder do that when creating the DVDs?
The best option would be to soft telecine the progressive edit and render as mpeg2. At any rate, I would not use Resolve for that.
Here is the video properly inverse telecined (and I also converted the video from Rec601 to Rec709 and performed a denoise. But obviously for DVD you need Rec601) using various Vapoursynth filters:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k9odei3du6sne ... d.mov?dl=0
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