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  Playing back 4k film scans in avid

  Posted by Jess Wise on April 5, 2011 at 8:21 pm

  I’m a director working on a short film and we’re having problems with our .dpx files in the avid. We shot anamorphic 35mm and are cutting negative to make a film print. We had about 20 seconds of VFX shots that were scanned at 4K to do a film out after they were composited.

  One sequence is 192 frames long, which should be 8 seconds of material. However, when we input the footage into Avid at 24 fps, we only have 6 seconds and 10 frames of material. To add to the confusion, the compositing artist plugged the sequence into Nuke at 24 fps and it ran at 7 seconds and 11 frames.

  I’m sure that, since we’re finishing on film, it won’t be an issue for the final deliverable. But we would like to check the footage before we send it off to the lab.

  Thanks in advance for all of your help.
  -J

  Aaron Shadwell replied 14 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mark Spano

  April 5, 2011 at 9:07 pm

  Only thing I can think is that it might be interpreting as 30. 192 frames at 30 = 6 seconds 12 frames. Make sure you’re importing the 24 frame clip into a 24 frame Avid project.
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  Aaron Shadwell

  January 4, 2012 at 4:09 am

  yeah Ill second the frame rate thing…

  in the option dialog box on import …be sure that your detect sequential images option is on…..

  good luck…..how nice for you to get to work with film!

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