24p nightmare!

[Tom Wolsky]

That’s right. That’s what the 3:2 cadence does. Make the viewer or Canvas 100% and step through the frames counting the cadence. That’s how it distributes 24 frames over the fields of 29.97 video.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Bender]

hi tom!

i dont get that? is there a solution for that? i dont care if i edit 24p oder 29.97fps … i just wanna have the footage withouth the interlaced interference and a synched audio! is there a way to achieve that??

thanks and best
florian

[Tom Wolsky]

Your camera doesn’t record 24fps. It records at 29.97. It shoots 24fps. To spread the 24 frames over 29.97 it uses a pulldown cadence. The standard cadence is 2:3:2:3 known as 3:2 just to confuse things.

Read about it in the manual vIII p526.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Bender]

thanks tom for your response … and i understand what the 3:2 pulldown is doing … but i still dont know how to fix it? what adjustments i have to apply to the capture presets to fix it????\

thanks so much!
florian

[Dan Riley]

I assume you used the SDX900 camera set to 24p DVCPRO50 ?
I just finished a show where we used this camera.
We rented the SD930 deck and transfered all the tapes to DigiBeta,
then input regularly from the DigiBeta deck
and used a regular 29.97 sequence.
No trouble with the pulldown or sync.
The third frame is just a repeat when you look at it frame by frame.

What deck are you using to input to FCP,
and what output of the deck, SDI or Firewire?

Dan

[Bender]

im using a panasonic aj-d950 … i captured with sdi … didn work … then i tried to transfer it to digibeta tapes via sdi … didnt work also … and i lost the anamorphic format as well! … this makes me crazy!!! please … please help me!!!

florian

[Dan Riley]

When you say it doesn’t work, are you looking at your computer monitor
or output through your video card to an NTSC monitor?
Because either of the ways you said you captured should work.
Capture to uncompressed or DV or DVCPRO50, doesn’t matter.
Your sequence should be 29.97. Anamorphic I didn’t do.
My job is in 4 by 3, but that shouldn’t matter either.

Remember SD doesn’t do 24p. That’s in the HD world.
That camera makes a kludge attempt at 24p by
repeating every third frame or so. You still have to
capture and edit at 29.97 SD. You should be seeing
2 frames followed by 1 repeated frame, then 2 more frames, etc.
What video output card do you use?

Dan