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23.98 timeline to 29.97 timeline HELP
I have a client to offlined his show 29.97. All his original footage was shot 23.98. He wants to online, rebatch his 23.98 footage in and wants to end up laying off 23.98. How do I get the sequence from 29.97 to 23.98? Can this even be done?
-Scott
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4 Replies
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You can try exporting an EDL from your 29.97 timeline, bring it to Cinema Tools, under the File Menu select Export, under the sub-menu select Converted EDL then 24 from 30.
Bring you new EDL in to Final Cut to create a sequence, then batch recapture the sequence. If the timecodes of the offline corresponded properly, you should have minor cleanup.
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You can’t change the timebase of a sequence once footage is placed into it. I’m not sure if this would work, but you could try to make a new 23.98 sequence, then copy all your footage from your 29.97 sequence into your 23.98 footage. Final Cut shouldn’t alter the length of these clips – it will determine their lengths based on their time code and frame rate, not just their frames, regardless of what your sequence time base is set to. Once this is done, Recapture your clips as 23.98. They should reconnect fine automatically as 23.98 in the new sequence. (Keep in mind however, that you should export a reference video first from the 29.97 sequence or save this as a new project before recapturing if you don’t wish to overwrite all the 29.97 footage)
-Ben
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I am doing exactly that right now, except my source footage was 24pAdvanced DV. I captured the footage at 29.97 and threw my clips into a 29.97 sequence and edited away. Now I have created a 23.98 sequence and copied all the edited clips from the 29.07 sequence and pasted them into new 23.98 sequence. All the clips now show they need to be rendered, but instead i am selecting each source clip and removing the advanced pull down (under the tools menu.) As I do this each edited segement from the clip changes from being needing to be rendered to NOT needing to be rendered.
I suspect it would work this easily if I just rebatched with pull down removal on.
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I does work too re-batch the footage – i just did it.
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