• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  HD to DVCam Final Cut workflow

  Posted by Jason Pachomski on January 22, 2007 at 6:41 am

  Hi all… wondering if I could get some quick expert advice. I’m cutting a short that was shot on HD (I think on an F900) at 24P and then downconverted to DVCam @ 30 non-drop for the offline edit. Now, my question is, should I be capturing these tapes at 23.98 or 29.97? And, keeping in mind that I’m eventually going to have to up-rez from the HD masters, should I be cutting in a 23.98 timeline?

  my options as I see it are made up of the following combinations:

  capture at 23.98, cut in 23.98 timeline
  capture at 23.98, cut in 29.97 timeline (probably not the right way to go)
  capture at 29.97, cut in 23.98 timeline
  capture at 29.97, cut in 29.97 timeline

  any suggestions would be inifintely appreciated…

  thanks so much

  Daryl K davis replied 19 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  January 22, 2007 at 6:52 am

  If your master tapes are 23.98, then it would be advisable to reverse telecine your DVCAM footage and edit in a 23.98 timeline.

  Shane
  
  Littlefrog Post
  http://www.lfhd.net
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  Jason Pachomski

  January 22, 2007 at 6:58 am

  that would be a Cinema Tools thing huh?
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  Shane Ross

  January 22, 2007 at 7:07 am

  Yes it would.

  Shane
  
  Littlefrog Post
  http://www.lfhd.net
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  Walter Biscardi

  January 22, 2007 at 1:28 pm

  In the future I would suggest you simply capture the HD material through an AJA Kona board to DVCPro HD in the matching frame rate. This gives you the smaller files like DV but with exact matching timecode as the original HD tapes.

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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  Daryl K davis

  January 23, 2007 at 2:41 pm

  The first MOW I did that was shot HDCAM24p, we downconverted to DVCAM 29.97 NDF and logged and captured (A-frame), reverse telecined all footage in Cinema Tools and edited in a 23.98 timeline. A bit of a hassle outputting viewing copies and you essentially double your media storage requirements.

  Since then – I didn’t reverse telecine andf just cut in 29.97 NDF timeline (dropped sequence in a 29.97 DF timeline to calculate and check program durations), and coverted the 29,97NDF EDL to 24p for HD on-line. Have had no problems whatsoever. Have done 5 MOW and over 45 episodes of TV series this way.

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