ARRI 416 Film Camera User Manual


 
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In practice the most important case is a lm camera speed
of 23.976 fps and a NTSC video assist.
This creates the situation described in the drawing.
From the rst lm frame, two video elds are derived, the
second lm frame, three video elds are derived, from the
next lm frame, two video elds and so on.
The Pull-Down information is created as follows:
Every time, the video eld corresponds to a new lm frame,
the letter will change either from A to B or B to A and the
number will be set to 1. As long as no new lm frame is
taken, the video elds are counted, beginning from 1.
Consequently A2 is the rst repetition of A1. B2 would be
the rst repetition of B1, B3 would be the second repetition.
In spite of the fact that the name Pull-Down comes from the
working practice in the NTSC systems, where on a telecine
the lm is running on 23.976 fps and gets converted to
29.97 fps, the denition of Pull-Down information on the
IVS can also be applied to PAL and to lm speeds other
than 23.976 fps.
Film
1
Film
2
Film
3
Film
4
A1 A2 B1 B2 B3 A1 A2 B1 B2 B3
Like all man readable information, the data is inserted as
a window on the monitor image. The window can be
switched on and off independently. Background, position
and character format can be altered without affecting the
settings of other windows.
Note: Pull-Down information is only inserted when
timecode is actually recorded on lm. If there is
no timecode recording, for example because
the camera is not running on a timecode speed,
only A1 will be displayed.
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