• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Frame rate old footage / USB2 ext drive?

  Posted by Mickey Power on January 25, 2008 at 5:02 am

  Howdy

  Just had historic footage transferred from 16mm, 8mm and Super 8. After discussion about frame rates with facility, agreed for footage to be transferred onto ext hard drive as uncompressed SD, frame for frame. That is, not at 24 or 18 fps. Now I’m looking at editing it with HDV footage shot at 25fps.

  The final program may be screened on HD monitor therefore I reckon I should keep HDV footage as HDV or ProRes and upres historic footage.

  1) So, when to set frame rate? If I edit clip shot at 15fps into 25fps sequence, will it just speed it up? Should I make speeds changes before? (Not worried about visible speed change with 24fps footage.)

  2) Another question: the drive they supplied is USB2 only. Is that acceptable for editing in FCP?

  Thanks

  Mickey

  Mickey Power replied 18 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Zane Barker

  January 25, 2008 at 6:12 am

  [Mickey Power] “Another question: the drive they supplied is USB2 only. Is that acceptable for editing in FCP? “

  Absolutely NOT. USB works in bursts of data, where as FireWire has a sustained data rate.

  Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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  Mickey Power

  January 25, 2008 at 9:30 am

  Interesting – media on USB2 drive shows up in FCP but plays badly. I thought the intermittent playing was due to the uncompressed footage.

  Thanks anyway.

  Mickey

  Mickey

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