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23.98 sequence in offline to 29.97 in online
After many discussions with clients, we have decided that a film that was edited in 23.98 will be reformatted to 29.97. Easy right? Except that 1/3 of the film was shot at 29.97 and 2/3 in 23.98. When I make a new sequence and make it 29.97, gaps will show up between cuts because of the time change. I was told that there may be a way to get an edl to do the work for me and put everything back together exactly the way it was in the 23.98 sequence. Does anyone know if this is the case, and if so how to do it? Do I need to use Cinema Tools to reformat the edl?
Also, when I dropped some 23.98 media into a 29.97 timeline, the pulldown was off and the motion looked jittery. In my settings the pulldown is set to 2:3:2:3 as it should be, but I had to play through a terranex to make the pulldown correct. Any thoughts?
Thanks for your help.
Mike
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You gotta convert the other frame rate to 29.97 OUTSIDE of FCP. Compressor does a decent job of this, but you have to go to the FRAME CONTROLS (an option in the Inspector), turn them ON, and set everything to BEST. This means that the conversion process will take a WHILE…overnight while if you have a few shots, weekend while if 45 min of your 90 min doc is 23.98.
Shane
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So FCP can’t do the conversion live? I thought it could add pulldown on the fly.
What about taking the tape that I made yesterday, HDCAM 23.98 and putting it through a terranex, then digitizing it at 1080i29.97 and replacing all the 23.98 in the timeline? I’d marry the newly terranexed 23.98 to the original media of 29.97. Make sense?
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[Mike Kahn] “So FCP can’t do the conversion live? I thought it could add pulldown on the fly.”
Nope. FCP adds pulldown, but the WRONG KIND of pulldown. 2:2:2:4…and you need 2:3:3:2.[Mike Kahn] “What about taking the tape that I made yesterday, HDCAM 23.98 and putting it through a terranex, then digitizing it at 1080i29.97 and replacing all the 23.98 in the timeline? I’d marry the newly terranexed 23.98 to the original media of 29.97. Make sense?”
Heck, if you have a Terranex at your disposal that would be the way to go.
Shane
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So that should work flawlessly right? I don’t need to worry about EDL’s, fixing edits or anything? And the audio should stay in sync with everything after putting the terranexed 29.97 and the original 29.97 together?
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