oohteedee said:
here is what I discovered are missing frames of the reel scans
comparing against the bonus DVD gout version
My DVD gout may have the frame numbers off but look at frame 15496 on reel 3 as a reference to the frame I mean. On my gout it’s duplicated. I viewed the gout in QuickTime 7 on my Mac as that version shows a frame count.
I think another problem is that one is comparing the 35mm scan that is displayed at 23.97fps (frames per second) against a DVD that is displayed at 29.97fps.
All NTSC DVD videos are displayed at 29.97fps. Motion Pictures are displayed at 24fps. Speaking in lamen’s terms, to release a motion picture on DVD, a 3:2 pulldown scheme is used where a frame of a film is duplicated on 2 to 3 video frames (or fields) on a NTSC video in order for the video to match the film’s running time—for every set of 2 video frames that a single film frame is duplicated, a set of 3 video frames duplicates another single film frame.
That is why, oohteedee, you are getting duplicate frames on the DVD. You should be comparing the 35mm scan against Harmy’s Despecialized edition of the film. Both of them are displayed at 23.97fps.