16mm film work flow in FCP..

Seawild
June 1, 2006 at 10:26 pm

Just to let you know, I did the search. Didn’t really get the info I need.

I guess my big questions are:

1) If we are never going back to film… Will a Telecine at 29.98 look OK? And can we edit at 29.98 without worrying about about pull-down and keys?

2) And will it look less film like, if we are no longer at 24 even if it was shot at 24?

Thanks Again, Chris
Blub06
June 1, 2006 at 11:00 pm

If you are going back to film transfer then cut at 24fps. If you are never going to go to the original camera neg and cut that, do the whole thing 30/29.9 fps.

ALL the films you see on NTSC are transfered at 30fps, and the good ones look good, the bad ones, they look better then they should.

Chris
Seawild
June 2, 2006 at 12:10 am

Thanks Chris!

That makes life a little easyer. Does FCP import flexfile pretty well?

D5 can record at any speed right?

Chris
Seawild
June 2, 2006 at 12:56 am

Chris

Are there going to be interlacing issues if we Telecine 16mm(24fps) at 59.98?

And I guess if we do 59.98 we will not be able to do 5.1 audio huh?

Chris
Steven Gonzales
June 2, 2006 at 12:58 am

FCP does not import flex files directly. You need to create a database in Cinema Tools, and import the flex file in there to make data records. Then you can immediately export a Final Cut Pro batch file, which as you could guess, Final Cut handles just fine.
Seawild
June 2, 2006 at 1:47 am

Cool, thanks Steven.
Blub06
June 2, 2006 at 6:16 pm

I don’t know.

Chris

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