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  • How to Make a Clip Non Drop Frame

    Posted by Kimberly Ruane on October 21, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    Hi all, and thanks to anyone who can help!
    Think I’ve got a pretty basic question here, but I usually work with Avid, and this has me stumped.

    How in the world do I change a single clip from drop frame to non drop frame?

    This is some playback stuff that we got from set, streams of videogames.
    I used MPEG Streamclip to make the Quicktimes, but I either skipped a step, or Streamclip did its job correctly.
    Either way, I got drop frame clips, and we’re cutting in non drop frame.

    Any help would be MUCH appreciated.

    Kim

    Francis Hughes replied 17 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Francis Hughes

    October 21, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    This is dropped frames during playback.

    Final Cut Pro -> User Preferences -> uncheck the option ‘report dropped frames during playback’

  • Kimberly Ruane

    October 21, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Hi Francis,

    Thanks for that, and I’ll try it, but I’m not sure that is what I’m looking for.

    (Haven’t played back any of the clips yet, I was just noticing that they’re drop frame in the bin.)

    In Avid, you can change a clip or sequence to non drop just by using Cmd + I and then just hitting the colon or semicolon key. I’m wondering if there’s any equivalent in FCP.

    Thanks!
    Kim

  • Francis Hughes

    October 21, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Ah yes that is for stopping notifications, I have to say I do stuff for web so dropped frames are not much of a bother at a 400kbps flv.

  • Bill Dewald

    October 21, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    Francis, you’re barking up the wrong tree – she’s talking about timecode, not dropped frames on the timeline.

    Kimberly, you want “Modify>Timecode – Format”. This will change the metadata in the QT file.

  • Kimberly Ruane

    October 22, 2008 at 11:23 am

    Yes!

    That was it – thanks, Bill!

    And thanks Francis – I’ll have to remember that info in the future!

    Kim

  • Francis Hughes

    October 22, 2008 at 11:57 am

    *looks up from his copy of ‘learn more final cut before responding to peoples posts, the dos and donts’

    LOL cheers for saying so, not particularly useful info. I will use the self taught excuse.

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