• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  How to edit all those framerates in FCP

  Posted by Paul Durand on December 10, 2008 at 8:50 pm

  Hello everybody,

  Here the problem:

  I have all those differents tapes (from different projects) and I need to capture everything and to make one project with all this footage

  -30 miniDV tapes shot in HDV 1080p24 (23,98) 16:9
  camera: Sony V1U
  -20 miniDV tapes shot in HDV 1080i60 (29,97) 16:9
  camera: Sony Z1

  -4 miniDV tapes shot in DV 24PA (progressive advanced)16:9
  camera: Panasonic HVX200
  -2 miniDV tapes shot in DV 24PA (progressive advanced) 4:3 caméra Panasonic HVX200

  The final project should be for TV, and maybe for some theatres also.

  I will work on it with final cut pro 6.0.5 on mac
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  1/What framerate settings would you recommend me in this situation?

  2/Do I need to convert some of the footage (to have all the footage at 23.98 or 29.97)

  I heard about DVfilm maker or magic bullet, is that a good option?

  or the new “open timeline” in FCP6 can handle the editing of all those differents formats and framerates without any issues at the end of the editing?

  Thanks a lot for your help. I hope my post is clear enough, Im sorry for the bad english speaking Im not native speaker.

  Best regards.

  Paul

  Paul Durand replied 17 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Sean Oneil

  December 11, 2008 at 8:53 am

  You should capture all footage at native frame rates but edit and master in 29.97.

  The alternative is to convert everything to 29.97 first. Less stuff to render, but bad pulldown cadence will cause artifact problems on web clips and most consumer HD displays.

  Sean
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  Paul Durand

  December 11, 2008 at 5:41 pm

  Thanks a lot for your fast answer Sean, I just tried to put everything in a 29.97 timeline (captured with native framerate).

  The problem is that the dv 24pa footage looks really ugly (I removed the pulldown with cinema tool to have a 23.976 framerate an inserted it in my 29.97 timeline)

  Is it possible to edit all of this on a HDV 23.976 timeline? would it be problematic for outputting the master as it is destined for film and tape?

  Thanks
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  Sean Oneil

  December 11, 2008 at 5:56 pm

  [paul durand] ”
  Is it possible to edit all of this on a HDV 23.976 timeline? would it be problematic for outputting the master as it is destined for film and tape?”

  You’ll need to have the 60i footage converted to 24. You can’t do this with FCP and expect it to look halfway decent. I had to do this once and used a Teranex and it looked good. Maybe try Compressor.

  Sean
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  Paul Durand

  December 11, 2008 at 6:15 pm

  I’ll try compressor, thanks.

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