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23.98 Motion JPEGA export converted to 22.66
I am cutting a feature-length documentary on Final Cut Pro HD 4.5. The footage was shot on film and HDCAM. All the footage was mastered to HDCAM and I was cutting off DVCAM simo dubs. It was captured using a Decklink card and the working timeline is 23.98. The final product will be mastered to HDCAM at 23.98. Everything seemed to be going along smoothly until I recently turned over my OMFs for the pre-mix. The OMFs came through OK but something fishy is going on with the quicktime export. I exported the video as a Motion JPEGA and defaulted to the current fps. However, when I checked the quicktime using movie info in the quicktime player, it says that the fps is 22.66. When playing, the fps changes to 24. My dialogue editor working with the OMFs is experiencing some drift and I’m curious if anybody has run across this before with respect to a 22.66 framerate. Thanks in advance for any help.
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4 Replies
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Its just something stupid that Quicktime Player does w/ BMD software installed. 29.97 clips show up as 29.66. And if you open up a DV clips, for example, it says under format that it is Blackmagic DV (which there is no such codec).
I don’t think it will actually affect anything.
Sean
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[Sean ONeil] “I don’t think it will actually affect anything.”
Quicktime often reports the wrong frame rate. It’s some silly code somewhere and it shouldn’t be trusted.
Is the dv sequence @ 23.98 ? If not and it’s @ 29.97, perhaps that’s where the drift is coming from…?
Jeremy
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The dv sequence is in fact at 23.98 and as it turns out my guys at Skywalker want to try XML Pro rather than Automatic Duck. So, I guess I’ll table my concerns regarding drift until we find out if XML Pro is sufficient and corrects any drift issues. Thanks for the help.
John
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Sounds adventurous. Have fun and good luck!
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