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60p footage on a 29.97i sequence
Is there any way to get Final Cut Pro to treat 60p footage properly when placed on a 29.97i sequence? What it seems to do, by default, is skip every other frame. The proper way to convert the footage in this scenario is to take odd lines from frame 1, even lines from frame 2, odd lines from frame 3, and so on… I have found that AfterEffects treats 60p footage properly when transcoding to 29.97i, but it’s pretty annoying to have to convert tons of footage before bringing it into FCP.
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You want to convert PROGRESSIVE to INTERLACED? Because just dropping the footage onto a FCP timeline won’t do that. All it will do is takes the 60 frames per second, and remove every other frame to make it 30fps.
After Effects is a compositing application designed to do what you want in that case. FCP is not, it is a basic non-linear editor. If you don’t like how FCP treats the footage, then you’ll have to convert the footage beforehand. Same with Avid, and I’ll wager the same with PREMIERE…
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” it’s pretty annoying to have to convert tons of footage before bringing it into FCP.”
It’s not that’ bad. Just bring all your clips into Compressor and convert a big batch…that is, if Compressor converts the footage the way you said it’s supposed to be converted.
You can make a settings preset in Compressor to drop on all your frames at once. It’s easy.
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