• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  23.976 jumpy playback

  Posted by Davide Marchesi on March 30, 2013 at 6:43 pm

  Hi everyone,
  I am exporting an edit of some footage shot with Canon DSLRs at 24fps (23.976), edited in FCP and color corrected in Apple Color and I have a problem with the final export: it doesn’t play back as smoothly as it does on the FCP preview. Here’s a clip:
  https://youtu.be/Ga1WI_jE9HQ
  Although perhaps you wouldn’t call it jumpy, I think it’s not as smooth as it should be.

  I think that I got all the settings correct:
  – never changed the framerate during conversion from h264 to apple prores
  – edited in a 23.98 timeline in FCP
  – exported as apple prores 23.976fps and converted with mpeg streamclip still maintaining the 23.976 framerate

  I am not sure what the issue might be. I thought it could be my computer but I’ve tried to play back the same file on another Macbook and I still encountered the same problem. If you guys have any tips I’ll be immensely grateful.

  Joseph Owens replied 13 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Nick Meyers

  March 30, 2013 at 11:57 pm

  that link is not working for me

  nick
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  Davide Marchesi

  March 31, 2013 at 1:33 pm

  Oh sorry, let’s try now:
  https://youtu.be/Ga1WI_jE9HQ

  Happy Easter everyone!
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  Nick Meyers

  April 1, 2013 at 3:20 am

  looks fine to me too.

  nick
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  Joseph Owens

  April 1, 2013 at 4:54 pm

  Well, I can see we have jumped all the way back in time to Tracy Chapman… but…

  the ‘jumpiness’ you are seeing is a result of the frame jnterpolation that DSLR Long-GOP will push into your footage. FCP/COLOR especially does not play nice with Canon H264.

  jPo

  “I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.

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