> having just had an international spot kicked back for "frame blending" issues i'd have to say that this statement has some flaws. in the US it's pretty acceptable to see these artifacts from the 23.98-to-29.97 conversion -  really they're usually just motion blur. but to the australians it's a problem. the conversion was "baked" into the ProRes masters, so nothing to be done on my end.

What pulldown scheme? Unless the pulldown was done incorrectly that should not be a big deal to get back to the original 24 frames which is what I meant by visually seamless. I’ve done pulldown reconstruction on bad transfers and while it’s a pain if the cadence changes every single cut it’s certainly doable to remove frame blending.