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29.97 SEQ to 23.98 SEQ HOW?
I have HDCam footage shot at 23.98pfs and digitized with pulldown into a 29.97i HD 1920×1080 SEQ. Beautiful stuff. But now my client wants to create that same sequence as a 1920×1080 SEQ 23.98pfs for a different venue.
How do I do that? How can I get FCP to create a sequence that gives me the same clips (albeit offline, and slightly different timecode values) to batch capture at 23.98pfs instead?
Love,
JeffFinal Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO
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I’d export a 30fps EDL – take it into Cinema Tools and have it create a 24fps EDL. Everything should come in within a frame or so.
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Export an EDL. CMX3600. Use Cinema Tools to convert that EDL from 29.97 to 23.98. FILE>EXPORT>EDL. 30 to 24 is the option you choose.
Import that EDL into FCP and you will get a 23.98 timeline. Recapture.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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OH…and beware any speed changes you did in the first cut. Speed changes don’t like to transfer for some reason.
Put the shots with speed changes on V2 or higher and export without them. Then make separate notes on your own where these shots are, and the starting and ending code, and percentage they were sped up and capture those separately and manually rebuild them. Note that a 60% speed change on a 29.97 fps clip may be a 61% change of speed on a 23.98 clip.
Speed changes are still the Achilles Heel of FCP.
Good Luck.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Will the EDL thing work with my 15 track sequence?
Love,
JeffFinal Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO
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heck no… you’ll have to either 1) condense your layers or 2) make 15 edl’s. But unless you’re doing lots of effects work, you should always be able to get your timeline down to 1 or 2 layers.
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“A different venue”
sounds like yo;re talking about the finished product.
would it make sense to just export your timeline, and adjust that.
(I come from a PAL world, so dont know if this would work or not) -
What about exporting an XML of the timeline and somehow changing the timebase of that file (with what I don’t know)?
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