• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Final cut pro p2 import / pulldown removal problem

  Posted by Simon Jaquemet on May 1, 2008 at 8:56 am

  Hello

  I have a strange problem with final cut pro v 6.0.2
  We shoot in 720/25p mode (not 25pn for monitoring reasons) I had the remove pulldown flag activated in the log and transfer window.
  For some reason I don’t understand, final cut stopped importing the p2 clips. It gave a error. I removed the pulldown flag in the preferences and it worked again. Final cut seems to randomly give me the error and I have to remove the flag when it happens.
  So I have a lot of clips that are 50fps. That means they are in fact 25p put with duplicate frames.
  How can I remove the duplicate frames? When I use the DVCPRO HD converter with conform to 25p and duplicate frames removal, final cut gives me a clip which is slow motion with still two frames being the same. It doesn’t remove the duplicate frames.
  Any ideas? Help is much apprechiated.

  Jeremy Garchow replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
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  Jeremy Garchow

  May 1, 2008 at 4:06 pm

  It seems to me that your stuff was shot 50p and not 25p. If you use the FRC and it comes out slow motion, that signals camera operator error to me.

  Jeremy
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  Simon Jaquemet

  May 1, 2008 at 6:03 pm

  No. It was definitely shot in 25p over 50p. The clip is slow motion but two following frames are identical. Any ideas?

  Simon
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  Simon Jaquemet

  May 2, 2008 at 10:35 am

  Just to clarify: The error FCP gave me on import was “no Data” I tried to convert the 25/50p clips with the internal FCP frame rate converter plugin.
  now everything works normal again. FCP properly removes the duplicate frames on import and the clips are 25p. But I still have a lot of 25 over 50p clips. I copied the problem cards but still final cut won’t import the clips from them and remove the pulldown.

  Has anyone of you encountered this problem?
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  Jeremy Garchow

  May 2, 2008 at 2:01 pm

  You have to make sure that your clips that you are using the FRC on are in the root level of your project (meaning that the footage is not in a bin). The easiest way to do this, is to make a new project, drag only the clips that you need to use the FRC on into that project and then run the FRC. Reimport the new clips that are made into your first project an continue editing.

  Why didn’t you shoot 25pN again?

  Jeremy
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  Simon Jaquemet

  May 2, 2008 at 5:52 pm

  He Jeremy

  Thank you. I will try that.
  We didn’t shoot pN because we were monitoring with scopebox and it doesn’t support 25pN
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  Jeremy Garchow

  May 2, 2008 at 5:57 pm

  [Simon Jaquemet] “We didn’t shoot pN because we were monitoring with scopebox and it doesn’t support 25pN “

  Ah! Makes perfect sense.

  Jeremy

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