• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Exporting sequence to a 24p QuickTime movie

  Posted by Felsherif on November 30, 2005 at 3:44 pm

  We shot a short on a Cannon XL2 @ 24p and 16:9. Captured everything as anamorphic in an anamorphic sequence and edited all clips fine, and now have pretty good looking sequence. My only problem is when I exported it to a QuickTime Movie using “Current Settings” and burned it on a DVD, the short on the DVD looked more like video rather than “film” (you know, the whole idea behind using 24p on a the XL2). So I re-rendered everything (though it didn’t need to render) and tried to export another QuickTIme movie but now using the “DV NTSC -24” option. Although it took about 45mins to export, the output video and audio were unfortunately off sync.

  I also tried to change the the “vid rate” of the sequence from 29.97 to 24, but it didn’t let me because the sequence already has all clips @ 29.97.

  Not sure really what to do to export the sequence to a 24p movie from Final Cut Pro (5.0). Any help is greatly appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Fathy

  Felsherif replied 20 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Beabout

  November 30, 2005 at 5:59 pm

  [felsherif] “the short on the DVD looked more like video rather than “film””

  Is this the frame rate that you are talking about? Or image quality?

  Sounds like your footage was shot 24p, but the camera added pulldown for you. That is pretty standard with the DV cameras, and your frame rate look should be preserved. There is really no way for it to have turned into interlaced footage in the DVD burning process that I know of. Now, if you are overall dissapointed with how DV looks on DVD… welcome to the club. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you will be able to fool anyone into thinking that you shot film (unless they just don’t know…).

  But… if you have a disparity between what you are seeing in your FCP timeline and what ends up on the DVD, then you should look into some of your Compressor settings. What did you use to encode for your DVD?

  -Todd Beabout
  Vazda Studios
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  Felsherif

  November 30, 2005 at 7:38 pm

  I meant the frame rate for 24p. Quality is fine, but just looks like “video.” Nothing really takes the place of film, I know, but this was just an experiment with the XL2 24p option.

  Since this was just a test DVD, I basically encoded and burned using Toast. I plan to use DVD Studio Pro to make the distributable DVDs. That’s an interesting point though, do you think the encoding of the DVD is what caused the frame rate to look more like video as opposed to what I see in Final Cut?

  Thanks,
  Fathy

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