• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP & Automatic Duck 24p Question – Scrambled Timecode

  Posted by Jonah Volk on July 26, 2006 at 1:21 pm

  Here’s my situation: I have footage that was shot in DVCPRO50 at 24p Normal. I’ve been editing it in FCP 5 at 29.97 fps. I’m going to be onlining the project on an Avid Symphony Nitris, then transferring it to film. The post-production house that is doing the film transfer says that it will make our lives a lot easier if we do the online at 23.98 fps.

  Our online facility has Automatic Duck, but when they tried to do a test earlier and Automatic Duck a 23.98 FCP sequence that I had created, it ended up scrambling all the timecodes. So my question is, what’s the best way to go about this? Can this be resolved just by messing around with Automatic Duck or are there other issues I need to take care of?

  This question covers a few categories, so I’m posting it in both the Final Cut and Automatic Duck forums.

  Thanks!

  Jonah

  Steven Gonzales replied 20 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Steven Gonzales

  July 26, 2006 at 3:16 pm

  I thought Automatic Duck did not support 24fps. Here’s from their web page:

  https://www.automaticduck.com/products/pefcp/

  What Avid systems are “Supported”?

  30i and 25i projects in Meridien-based Avid systems: Symphony, Media Composer (including Adrenaline), Xpress, Xpress Pro and Xpress DV
  DS is not officially supported, but we do have users taking sequences into DS, sometimes using a Media Composer as an intermediate step.
  ABVB-based systems are not supported.
  24fps is not supported because we do not convert timecodes (necessary for Avids since they don’t digitize at 24fps)

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