Footage acquired from a camcorder or by film transfer, at roughly 24 non-interlaced (progressive) fps is called 24p footage. This footage emulates film in its picture quality and depiction of movement because the 24p frame rate is very close to that of motion-picture film, and each frame is built from progressive lines (not from interlaced half-frame fields). 24p formats have become popular among low-budget digital filmmakers because they lend a film look to its subjects.

To create a 24p project in Adobe Premiere Pro, you select one of the 24p project preset that matches the format and frame aspect ratio of your footage. You can import files and capture footage as usual.

Adobe Premiere Pro includes two alternate 24p pulldown schemes: Repeat Frame and Interlaced Frame. Both options convert 24p footage so that it plays back at 29.97 fps, but there are subtle visual and performance differences between them. You can select one of these options in Project Settings when starting a new project, or change it in an existing project.

You can edit 24p footage in Adobe Premiere Pro. If you edit 24p footage in a project using one of the standard Adobe Premiere Pro DV-NTSC presets, Adobe Premiere Pro uses a 24p DV pulldown scheme to convert the footage to 23.976 fps interlaced video for playback to standard NTSC devices. You would use this method, for example, to export your movie to a standard NTSC format for mastering to tape or broadcasting.

If you edit 24p footage in a project based on one of the DV-24p presets, Adobe Premiere Pro, by default, disables the 24p pulldown scheme, and enables a pull-up scheme for playback to standard NTSC devices. This allows you to export the movie to a file in a 24p format. You would use this method, for example, if you want to export your movie to a DVD for playback on DVD players and TV monitors that support 24p formats.

When you are done editing, you can use the Adobe Media Encoder to export the 24p movie from Adobe Premiere Pro to Adobe Encore CS3. You can open it in Encore, author your DVD, then master and burn the project as a 24p MPEG‑2 stream. The resulting DVD exhibits no interlacing artifacts on 480p‑capable (progressive scan‑capable) DVD players and televisions. Alternatively, you can export the Adobe Premiere Pro 24p project into a format, such as still‑image sequences, appropriate for transfer to film.