• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  multi frame rate question for the community

  Posted by Scott Davids on September 2, 2005 at 11:45 pm

  I ask the members of the community to ponder this question with many variables to come up with the best solution to the problem.

  Here it goes.

  Basically a documentary was shot by an amature DP on a dvx 100A 24P and half way through shooting the 70 hours of footage, the camera reverted to 29.97i and the DP didn’t notice. To make a long story short – of 70 hours of footage 35 hours is 23.98 and the other 35 hours is 29.97i.

  On a movie with a big budget, and money to burn, all the 29.97 masters would be converted (costly) to 23.98 and create a new set of masters – but this is not an option. So basically we must cut the movie, use media manager to re capture the 29.97 stuff with handles, then get just the pieces in the cut transfered to 23.98 via tyrnex or alchamist and simply put the pieces back into the cut, slip or slide as needed, and there you go.

  Here is the question.

  What are the advantages/disadvantages of cutting the sequence in 23.98 vs. 29.97? My inclination is to cut at 23.98 – allow FCP to pull out frames of the 29.97 stuff during cutting as it may (it will look crappy but hey) to make sure that one half of the project’s timecode and aframes will be dead on. Then once we convert the 29.97 worry about slipping or moving a frame due to conversion of the 29.97 material. BUT the director is concerned about doing this because if it is cut at 23.98 and we let FCP pull out frames, its going to looks studdery and crappy, and he can’t screen it for comments legitimatly. If we cut in 29.97 and allow FCP to add in the frames to the 23.98 material – potentially BOTH the 23.98 and 29.97 material could be off a frame on every cut due to missed a frame or conversion.
  Obviously sound is on hold until conversion and lock due to this problem – but I thought I would get the oppinion of the comunnity of the advantages and dissadvantes of cutting the sequence in 23.98 vs 29.97 given these circumstances.

  Has anyone delt with this before? and what did you do – what were your problems.

  Thanks in advance

  Scott

  Scott Davids replied 20 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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