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Problem with edit.
Ok so I am working on a project that was shot on varicam. I am having a problem when I export the video, it isnt playing back the way it is in the sequence.
Everything plays back in the timeline fine, but when I export the video some cuts are playing back at different times in the footage. The only difference ive know is the cuts that play back correctly have a blue-gray bar in the render bar area and the ones that play back wrong do not. The footage was all captured with a preset of DVCPRO HD 60p. However in the bin some clips say 29.97 fps and some say 59.94. The ones that have a frame rate of 29.97 are the ones that do not have the blue gray bar and are the ones that play back a the wrong cut that I made. I am sure the problem lays in the frame rate difference but I do not know how to go about fixing the problem. Any help would be much much aprreciated.
Thanks
Aaron
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[Aaron Keeny] “The footage was all captured with a preset of DVCPRO HD 60p”
It seems that some of it was captured with the 720p30 preset. You can recapture those clips to 720p60.
Jeremy
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That could be I dont know how the preset could have changed. I am really pretty sure i never changed it, also some of the clips that have different frame rates are from the same tape and I know I didnt change in between logging clips and batching.
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Also do you or anyone else know what the light blue bar is in the render area. I did some research and did not find much info.
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Light blue means it’s already rendered.
Jeremy
If some of your clips are 59.94 and some are 29.97 it seems that perhaps an easy setup was selected in between your logging. If you need to render some footage and not others, there’s a problem.
As a test, create a new sequence and drag one of the problem clips to that new sequence. When FCP6 asks if you want to change the setting to match the clip say yes. Then hit Command-zero and see what the frame rate says.
Jeremy
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Thank you very much for the help.
So what is the best settings for capturing Varicam footage, I think an easy setup of 720p60 was used for the capturing.
I will try your suggestion and let you know what happens.
If you have a chance here is something I posted a while ago that never got a response maybe you have some answers.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/981101
Again thanks a bunch
Aaron.
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In your other post, you said you used 720p30. Which one did you use and what frame rate did the dp shoot in?
Jeremy
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I know I think I screwed that up I posted that before I had a little better understanding of things that where going on. The DP shot in various frame rates throughout the tape. But it is my understanding that the varicam always shoots at 60p then with FRC remove the extra frames when you shoot in 24 and want the footage to play in slow motion.
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You are right, but you can also remove redundant frames upon capture with the other presets. Anything that is supposed to be used for fast or slow motion needs to be captured @ 60 and ran through the FRC. What is the main frame rate shot in? Normal motion, not overcranked. 60? 30? 24?
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Most of the stuff is shot in 30p. Normal motion the DP is shooting 30p.
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Okay, so it’s best if you capture with 720p30 except the slomo stuff which needs to be captured 720p60 and processed with the FRC. Your timeline should be set to 720p30.
Jeremy
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