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24.00 vs. 23.98 SOS!
When I import a 24.00 fps clip into a 24 fps project FCP sees the clip as 23.98 and lops off a frame. Is there a setting I am missing? We need to work at 24.00 all the way through.
Also, when I bring the same clip into a 23.976 project FCP lops off the same frame???
Help!
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9 Replies
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Animated series and everything is created at 24.00
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Hmmmm… this is really weird. FCP should be reading the frame rate correctly. I’m going to run out on a limb and guess that the files that are being delivered to you are at the wrong frame rate. If you pull ’em into Quicktime Pro and check the rate there, does it also say 23.98? You may have to ask for a re-delivery from the animation floor.
Also, I’m assuming that when you say 24fps project, you mean to say that the sequence you’re cutting on is set to 24fps. Gotta make sure them sequence settings match.
This may still be at a pretty basic level, but without knowing much about the setup over there, I’m starting by covering all the bases.
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Take clip to cinema tools. Hit conform. Select 23.98fps. Done. Repeat as necessary.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Yeah …project is 24.00 – shots show up as 24fps in Quicktime, Vegas and Premiere Pro – only FCP sees them as 23.98… which sucks because we are using FCP and not the other programs. We don’t have time to re-render all the clips.
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Do what Graeme suggested. You can do it in a batch and its extemely fast.
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Yes, and it will do 23.98fps to 24.00fps and 24.00fps to 23.98fps very rapidly (no time at all really).
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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These are .avi’s output from Maya to the Cinepak codec and Cinema Tools won’t open them.
Lance Bachelder
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Cinepak – that’s out of the ark. Why are you rendering to that. When I was doing animation work we always rendered to tiff sequences, which we then turned into movies at whatever FPS you need. FCP won’t edit a Cinepak movie properly anyway – you should be using a codec that FCP is happy with.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Hah! Tell our digital supervisor that! Maya only allows .avi’s or frames – we are in layout phase so these shots are being cut into our animatics before going out to the animation studio. The studio will be giving us back targa frames in the final pass.
I discovered it’s just the way FCP sees the .avi’s – it can only see them as 23.98 and lops off a frame. Although I can’t use Cinema Tools, fortunately Compressor reads the .avi’s and I can batch convert them to 24 fps .mov’s and then FCP sees them fine including the lost frame – and it doesn’t matter if the seq is 23.98 or 24 – FCP sees the .mov’s correctly.
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone! Love The Cow!
Lance Bachelder
Southern California
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