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How to convert 24p to 29.97 ASAP!
I’ve taken over a project for someone who shot a commercial in 24p on miniDV. I diged it at 24p. The footage plays back fine in FCP, but not on my monitor – I only see a static shot when I pause the playhead. I need to convert this, I’m assuming, to 29.97 in order to output to Beta (for tomorrow July 20th!). How do I do this?
Thank you for any help you can provide,
Evelyn Carrigan
Video Production/Post Production
The Allen|Roche Group
12 Farnsworth
Boston, MA 02210
Office: 617.422.0003
Mobile: 617.784.3636
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10 Replies
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Re-digitize it at 29.97
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Make sure your timeline is at 23.98fps. Plug in your DV deck and play it out. There’s a timeline preference to add 3:2 pulldown to the output to take it to 29.97fps.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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What are your system specs?
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 4.5 <> Kona 2ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre
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The editor before me diged at 30fps and there’s a sync problem. Have you done this before – if so, did you change your settings in the timeline, or anywhere else? Thanks for your help, David – my client is coming in at noon today! Yikes.
Evelyn Carrigan
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Hi Graeme,
I just found an article about the process of digitizing 24p video and 48kh sound.
https://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/MayJun04/mayjun04_23-24_proj.htm
What this article states is exactly what you were saying – with 23.976 your audio doesn’t have to make an adjustment of 1%. When pulling in at 24p there is a delay in the video of 2 frames, so the solutions are either to find an audio delay option and set it for 1-5 frames OR pull in your audio analog so that it is true 48kh. Hope this makes sense!
Evelyn Carrigan
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Hi Graeme,
I just found an article about the process of digitizing 24p video and 48kh sound.
https://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/MayJun04/mayjun04_23-24_proj.htm
What this article states is exactly what you were saying – with 23.976 your audio doesn’t have to make an adjustment of 1%. When pulling in at 24p there is a delay in the video of 2 frames, so the solutions are either to find an audio delay option and set it for 1-5 frames OR pull in your audio analog so that it is true 48kh. Hope this makes sense!
Evelyn Carrigan
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Your source tapes are 24p right? Are the 24p normal or 24p advanced? Either way, when capturing you must set FCP to nromal DV NTSC at 29.97fps. You can’t just capture at 24p and hope it will work, because it will not. Do you know which setting was used on the camera??
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/24p_in_FCP_nattress.html
Should explain a lot.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Hi Graeme,
HELP! I’m going to lose this client because FCP 5 still won’t play my video correctly. I did what you said – captured at 29.97, all settings normal NTSC DV 48khz. The video is markedly slower even without listening to the audio. You can see how it lags.
I actually recaptured the video onto my internal HD to see if that made a difference, but it didn’t – thought maybe it was a communication/bus problem to my Lacie drive.
I’m not sure if the video was shot 24p advanced or normal, but I went ahead and removed the “advanced pulldown” from a clip just to try it. It syncs up nicely, but the video plays back quickly as though it’s been intentionally altered to look sped up.
Also, when I originally captured at 24p I was able to use the Apple audio delay filter to sync the clips up pretty darn closely. Unfortunately, the filters have corrupted the video and made them play back like there’s a trail whenever you see movement.
This computer is 2.5 GHz with 1.5 GB Ram – brand new G5 dual processor. It crashes at least 3 times a day when I’m in FCP. It’s doing weird things.
Graeme, thank you for any help you can provide.
Evelyn
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