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24fps QT Conversion Settings
I have a FCP project consisting of footage that is 23.98fps. We shot on Super 16mm film, transferred that to DV, and then my editor used Cinema Tools to import the footage into FCP at 23.98fps. Editing is completed, and now, I need to send an MOV file of the project to a festival (we originally submitted on a DVD) that requests a high quality MOV file that they plan to compress to a DVD themselves. I understand that I can use QT Conversion to make said MOV file and play around with the quality settings to achieve the largest file possible, but I am unsure as to which fps setting I should use within QT Conversion. Should I use “Current”, “24fps”, or “29.98”. Any help would be most appreciated.
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Thanks so much. The festival head told me that he would ask his technical director, but he said that he assumes they will want to file to be in PAL format (they’re in Australia). I haven’t the foggiest on how to make that conversion from the 23.98 timeline I have now. So, I suppose my weekend will be consumed with 25fps research if that does turn out to be the case. Any tips you guys have on that would be most helpful.
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Responding to a couple of points raised here, and trying to solve a problem myself. I’m working in a 720p24 project in Final Cut 5.1.2, captured at 23.98, shot with the JVC gyhd100u.
I’m trying to output a DVD. 1st attempt, I exported the sequence with the current settings as a self-contained QT. The file plays and looks fine on my computer, which is a G4 (1.5 Ghz, 2 GB Ram). Import in iDVD, burn the disc, and it doesn’t play in my DVD deck.
2nd attempt, under advice of the editorial crew from the movie Dreamer (which was cut on Final Cut), I re-imported that same QT file back into Final Cut, created a 29.97 sequence, and dropped the imported clip into said sequence. I then exported the 29.97 sequence as a self-contained QT to my desktop, then imported that QT into iDVD and burned it. This 2nd DVD played in my DVD deck but there was a jitter to it (unnoticed by most people watching it but very obvious to me). This jitter was also present in the QT file that I exported from the 29.97 sequence.
I see that you have advised not to ever create a 29.97 clip because it would result in disaster. Could you elaborate? Because I created the sequence, and while the results weren’t perfect, so far it hasn’t resulted in any disasters… Is something about to happen that I need to be aware of?
Bottom line, I have a 23.98 project and would like to output a DVD without any pulldown jitter and so far I haven’t been able to figure out how to accomplish this. I see that someone has mentioned outputting a DVD at 24. How can I do this?
I’d be extremely grateful for any help on this.
Thanks,
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Dave,
thanks very much. Just for curiosity’s sake, what was the disaster you were warning everyone about re: creating a 29.97 sequence in a 23.98 project? As I said, I already did so, and so far nothing seems awry (aside from the aforementioned jitter in my QT export), but just wondering if there are any corruption issues/damage-control steps I should be thinking about.
Thanks again
Rich
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