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24p in Final Cut Pro
I’m currently working on a 24p-shot film in Final Cut Pro. When digitizing, clips were automatically created when there were timecode breaks. What suprised me, however, was that a number of these clips had also somehow been digitized at 29.97 fps, even when the others had been captured at 23.98 fps. Out of the forty clips captured, seven have somehow been set at 29.97fps. Is it possible these clips are actually 24p, but FCP is mistakenly reading them as 29.97?
When I tried to redigitize the clip– as a Capture Now– the same clip shows up as 29.97.
Another question: if I drop the 29.97 clip into a 23.98 sequence and render it, does it become 23.98?
Thanks in advance for any insight.
JY
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What interests me about your question is that it sounds like the clips are all on the same reel and shot at the same time. Am I correct in assuming this? Most DV cameras (and HDV) that shoot in 24p have a number of different ways they actually do this. Many of them add frames to your tape to make it 29.97 NTSC standards compliant. You need to remove the 3:2 pulldown. You can do this using compressor or some other plugin. Some cameras flag the duplicated frames (24p advanced) and FCP can remove them. I think it’s under tools -> remove advanced pulldown. Step through your clips frame at a time and see if you have a pause every 3 frames. If so… you know you need to remove the pulldown.
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All the footage was shot at the same time,
with some inadvertant timecode breaks due to on-the-set playback. But, yeah, all the clips are from the same tape.
The camera was a Panasonic DVX-100B shot in 24p (Advanced) mode. -
shooting on Vericams. Different cameras. Same issues as yours except didn’t catch till over a hundred hrs. digged.
27 hrs had to be re captured. Best I can figure, (with lot’s of questions to Panisonic, and Apple folks, which wasn’t much help) is you’re right—when time code breaks happened, or wasn’t perfect, clip/capture defaults to 30/60 even tho WHOLE tape shot 24, capture settings 24.
Here’s what we did—and it worked on about half the offinding clips.
-Changed whatever the default pre-roll and post-roll settings to 3 sec.
-highlited offending clip in the bin, ‘ALT/Apple key+d’ and deleted the media from the drive.
-then in the bin, click on the ‘media start’ time code and added 5 sec or so. Subtracted 5 sec or so from the ‘media end’ the same way.
And it batch captured as it should have.
That was the half of the clips that would allow the in’s and out’s to be modified. Some reason, we gave up trying to determine, the other half wouldn’t let #’s be changed that way. No rhyme or reason. Just wouldn’t.
So, those had to be manually qued up marked in & out and worked o.k.
As well, if you’ve disabled ‘abort capture on time code break’ might re-enable to keep it from changing to 30/60 by itself. Didn’t get a chance to check if that worked.
Good luck.
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