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FCP vid frame rate issue (mixed 23.98 & 59.94) DVCPRO HD 720p60
I’m a film student and I just finished logging my footage from my short film. We shot with a Panasonic HVX200. After logging all my footage, I looked at the Vid Rate column and realized that my DP shot the first two days of footage at 23.98 fps, and the third day at 59.94 fps! The Compressor column reads DVCPRO HD 720p60. My sequence setting is 23.98 (matching the majority of my footage). I am just beginning to drag my (mixed) footage into my sequence to begin editing. This seems to work fine when using FCP 5.1, but FCP 6 rejects the 59.94 fps footage. Since FCP 5.1 accepts the footage in the timeline, I am considering abandoning FCP 6 altogether. However, I am very worried that I will run into problems down the road (during the rendering and exporting phases.)
A friend at school suggested downconverting (to SD), and changing the frame rates during the upconvert (back to HD). He was not very specific, though. I am looking for someone to give me the best solution to my problem. Any help would be HUGELY appreciated. Sorry if I reported any extraneous information, but I prefer to be specific when asking for help.
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3 Replies
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FCP 6 especialy should not reject your mixed framerate footage. What happens exactly?
I can’t tell you wether or not you will encounter problems with this mix in 5.1, it will need to render whatever footage is non-native to the timeline to the proper frame rate. The results could be questionable. You should do some tests and get used to doing tests when your not sure of something. The only way to be sure is to see for yourself.
I would create a new timeline and inter-cut a few seconds of both your 24 and 60 footage. Make it short and use footage that has both fast and normal motion. Render it, watch it, export to your delivery format and watch it on a TV (if that is how it your final project will be viewed).
Have fun,
Shiloh
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Good advice from Shiloh. Take a look at Nattress standards converter too.
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The frame rate problem should really be with FCP 5.1, not 6.You could always export the 59.94 footage as 23.98 with the DVCPRO Frame rate converter and reimport it. If your DP did this intentionally, when you convert it to 23.98, it provides a very beautiful slow-mo effect.
Download the plugin here:
https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/support/fcphd.asp
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