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Workflow Woes 2.0
So I upgraded to Media Composer 4. What is the best method of getting 1280×720/24fps to look decent in a 30i timeline? I have used several third party compression programs but am still unable to get a decent down conversion. Thanks…
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Capture the material into a 720p 23.976 project.
Open your 30i project.
Choose Open Bin from the 30i Project window’s fast menu
Navigate to the 720p23.976 project and select the bin that has the 720p24 footage.
Cut away.
Media Composer 4.0 will automatically adjust the frame rate for you. You can then promote the motion effects it applies to the clips to adjust the interpolation settings for better quality.
Michael
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Michael Hancock
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Michael, you’ve saved me yet again. Your method works brilliantly. I threw the Reformat 16:9 onto the clip with the converted frame rate and it looks great! Thanks a bunch. -Justin Gray
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Glad it worked. We haven’t upgraded to 4.0 yet, but I’ve played with the demo and it’s a thing of beauty. Makes working with mixed framerates a non-issue.
Also, if you want to center-cut your footage instead of letterbox it, use the Pan and Scan effect. It’s under Reformat as well.
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Michael Hancock
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For those of you following this post I would like to expand a bit on Michael’s excellent suggestion for merging HD progressive footage into an SD interlaced project.
Along with being able to import/digitize the HD footage in it’s native format within a project, then opening that footage in an SD project and letting Avid handle the frame conversions, you can also apply this to entire sequences.
I experimented in a 1280×720 24p project by cutting a few clips together into a native sequence… all shot on a JVC Gy-HD700. Then, started a test 30i project. Instead of opening a bin from the HD project and simply cutting with the the raw footage I double clicked the HD sequence itself within the 30i project. Avid then prompts you by saying the sequence frame rate does not match the project frame rate, (24p vs. 29.97) and asks if i wanted to load a copy of the sequence that has been modified to match the project’s play rate. IT WORKED GREAT!!! With a little work with the “REFORMAT” effect I got an awesome SD conversion of the entire sequence.
Now why would one want to do this? Two words… BetaSP Dubs. Edit in HD but still spit out your analog tapes with no exporting, no transcoding, no worries.
I hope this helps anyone who is having Workflow Woes like I was.
-Justin Gray
– Justin Gray
KLTV Promotions
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