24p footage captured as 60p via HD-SDI, need to get to 30i

[John Sharaf]

Mike,

First off, there’s no such thing as 30i.

Second, if you captured all the frames (import as a 29.98 project) you’ve already got the 2:3 pulldown in your time line.

What is it you’re really trying to do? Deliver 1080i? if that’s the case just play it out to the 1200/1400 deck and make the conversion as playout from the deck or in transfer to HDCAM master.

JS

[Gary Adcock]

[Mike Peele] “I have some 24p varicam footage captured as 60p via HD-SDI (using AJA in the DVCPRO HD 60 codec), so I have lost my flags (right?).”

if you captured 720p 59.94 with a Kona card the flags ARE STILL THERE!!!!
run the software FRC and tell it you want the file to be 23.98

if you had just told the card to capture using the DVCPROHD 720p 23.98 Varicam settings
it would have extracted the frames in the manner they were shot – over the HDSDI.

FCP 5.1 has the DVCPROHD Frame Rate Converter in the extras folder on the installer disk
5.04 and before can use the one downloadable on the panasonic site.

FCP 6 installs the FRC as part of the suite package.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Michael Peele]

Thank you Gary!
I thought for sure those flags were gone.
I’ll give it a shot – this should be a lot easier than my last stop-gap solution of manually pulling out the redundant frames! LOL
Mahalo,
Mike