G Remove Pulldown

G Remove Pulldown is designed for situations where you have 24p material with 3:2 pulldown that you need to remove. You may need to remove it so that you can add special effects to the video, or to produce better slowmo. You can also use G Remove Pulldown to help you determine the correct pulldown pattern for instructing Cinema Tools to perform a reverse telecine.

When this plugin removes the pulldown, it will effectively speed up the footage from 24p to 29.97fps (when used in an NTSC timeline) and leave the end of the clip with a repeat of the last frame. This buffer space on the end is useful for when you want to add pulldown back in later with the G Add Pulldown plugin as this will ensure the clip returns to the correct length.

Unfortunately, due to errors in the way that FCP handles deeply nested sequences, there can be problems using this filter. It is not possible to take a clip, remove pulldown, add effects, and then add pulldown back in using only nested sequences. If you remove pulldown and then add an effect, you may need to save that segment of the timeline out to disk as a movie, bring it back in, and then use the G Add Pulldown filter.