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True enough, Warren. I do quite a few demos in the course of a year for the local university, media college as well as a couple of high schools. One school fills a bus and travels 250 miles to attend a one hour demo each year. Most students are very engaged and fascinated but invariably there are one or two falling asleep. I find it hard to believe they could be this way as we put on a very engaging dog and pony show of them, but these people are probably not attending a film and video class because it is their first love or passion. Often we find very experienced editors making mistakes with frame rates and pulldown. Some admit this techie stuff just eludes them and they look to us for help. The most prevalent issue we see is 29.97 footage being dragged into 23.98 projects then that footage is exported or rendered out and frames are thrown away. We have to try to get back to source or actually attempt to fix with products like frame restorer. I had posted a shot a couple of months ago, but worth repeating where a movie used a GoPro camera at 29.97 and dropped the footage into a 23.98 timeline. Then the footage was exported at 23.98 for a vizfx person to remove the shadow caused by the helicopter. The source footage went missing. We were doing a DCP and the editor at our shop alerted me to the shot. I called the producer who said, we were told this couldn't be fixed by the biggest post facility in Toronto. I told him we could fix it. Took me 90 minutes with Frame Restorer, a little warp stabilizer as well as color correcting the guard rail back to green from being blown out to white by the GoPro. Check out the before and after here. Needless to say the producer was on top of the world when he saw this fix to his movie. Jack Tunnicliffe Java Post Production
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