Film chain effect

[attmay]

Does anyone remember a device that used to be used until about 20 years ago in TV called a film chain? Well I have some stuff on video shot at 24fps on film and, it was transferred to video on one of these old film chains. Trouble is, it produces a bizarre "ghosting" effect between frames, and I want to get rid of it. Does anyone here have any ideas?

[edDV]

A good "file chain" was just an aerial telecine. The ghosting you are seeing is the 2:3 pulldown. Search IVTC.

http://www.dvdfile.com/news/special_report/production_a_z/3_2_pulldown.htm

[attmay]

I can do IVTC in Cinema Tools, however, this has a weird algorythm which causes the frames to blur within one another. I don't know how best to describe it. This was apparent in all TV broadcasts of 24fps-film based material in the US until the mid-1980s.

[edDV]

There was no different transfer method back then, just more primitive cameras. Could be a cheapo vidicon camera that had longer image retention creativing something like a trailing blur.

The only goal for that kind of telecine was to get film into video cheaply. There was never any intention to reverse the process back to frames.