Pre-Processing

With your media and resources organized and ready for creative work, you are ready to perform preparatory image processing. Pre-processing is especially useful when dealing with media originating from different formats, including film. You can pre-process clips to simplify your work, making your editing, compositing, or visual effects work easier to do.

Pre-processing includes:

Resizing clips to manage media originating from different formats. See Resize.
Managing pulldown removal and insertion, and monitoring 24 fps and 30 fps timecodes, for projects originating on film. See 2:3 Pulldown.
Changing the field dominance of clips, if you need to mix different interlaced video formats. This is important if you are working with video sources originating from NTSC and PAL, or NTSC and HDTV, in the same project. See Video Field Management.
Applying LUTs to film-based clips, as well as importing, loading, and creating LUTs. See Colour Management with LUTs.
Removing or adding film grain to accommodate matte creation or image-processing tasks. See Adding and Removing Film Grain.