3:2 Pull down

[mnr929rr]

Can anybody explain this or send some info on this feature?
And why it is a feature,yet not enabled?Any advice or info would be helpful.:bang:

[jlegge]

Heh.... OK.

The short and skinny on this in a pretty simple manner.

http://www.zerocut.com/tech/pulldown.html

You really only need to read the first 1/4 of the page as the rest of it is some sort of software capability thing.....

[Pat]

It applies only to progressive scanning of film. Progressive scan video displays 60 frames per second.  Film displays 24.  It turns out mathematically, that 5 frames of video takes the same time as 2 frames of film.  (5/60 == 2/24)  So progressive scan DVD players (or broadcasts of film) show one frame 3 times and another frame 2 times.  Simple enough.

So the problem becomes which film frame to show 3 times and which to show 2 times.  There are a surprising number of issues with this however, that get very complicated.