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problem importing P2 footage
Hello,
I posted this over in the HVX forum, but didn’t get any responses … hope somebody here can help!
I’m running FCP 6.0.2 on a MacPro. I am working a 720p25 project for 6 one-hour episodes, shot all over the world, and the logging and transferring is going smooth as silk … except for one set of clips. I’m not sure what happened in the field, but they appear to be recorded at 50 fps instead of 25 (despite being listed as 25 in the log and transfer window … when I frame step through the timecode, it goes up to :49 before cycling to the next second). This doesn’t impair the watchability of the clips in the Log and Transfer window.
The other variance is that the clips are recorded at 720p25 instead of 720pN25, which is the case for all the other clips surrounding it (that work fine). I’m not clear what the difference is.
When I import them into FCP, the video is choppy and messy, like it’s been slowed down. For grins, I tried putting a 200% speed effect on it, but that doesn’t restore sync properly.
Any thoughts?
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14 Replies
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There’s a Pref in the log and transfer window “automatically remove duplicate frames” or something to that effect. Try turning that off and importing the media.
I had this same thing happen when they shot 720p24 versus 720pN24
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Try turning on the preference in the log and transfer window that says to “remove redundant frames/advanced pulldown”. that should turn your 720p25 with pulldown material to 720p25N.
Jeremy
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Opps. Sorry. Aaron beat me to it.
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That’s EXACTLY it! Thanks so much!
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Thanks anyway – glad to get help so quickly!
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Don’t forget to turn it back off though, as it seems that it causes more problems when it’s on rather than off.
Jeremy
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Actually Jeremy you taught me that some months ago. So credit where credit is due.
Now I just need to get this RED footage to play nice. And you though P2 was messy!
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[Aaron Neitz] “Now I just need to get this RED footage to play nice”
Tell me about it. Just found out (too late) that you can’t play proxies made from 16:9 4K .r3d files. GAH. There goes the ‘offline’. Still, I should have the conversions in 30 hours if REDCINE doesn’t crash.
I’m dreaming of 720p25 right now.
😉
Ben
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Yeah. I like the idea of offline editing with a proxy, but at the same time it seems like a recipe for problems.
I drop those proxies into Compressor, turn into ProRes, hit render, come back in the morning to dailies. But what a phenomenal camera!
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[Ben Holmes] “Just found out (too late) that you can’t play proxies made from 16:9 4K .r3d files.”
Ben that’s easy, simply open up the sequence settings and uncheck the “Cripple Red Proxy” option and you should be good to go.
Jeremy
PS Just kidding
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