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30 frame project back to 24 frame online
Hey everyone … I have an HD project that was shot in 24p and then down-converted to DVCam for the offline edit. I cut the show in FCP 5 on a Powerbook G4 (1.7 GHz with 1GB RAM). I digitized the DVCam tapes at 29.97 and cut in a 30fps drop-frame timeline (this might be the beginning of my problem). We’re now picture locked on the cut and I need to online using the original HD masters…. I’m wondering if I paste my cut into a 23.98fps timeline and then render if this successfully removes the pulldown (which would allow me to at the very least eye-match the cut from the digitized HD footage). Ultimately, I would much rather just take the timeline I have and online straight from there. Maybe I should spit out and EDL and then re-dig using that?
As you can see I’m a little befuddled … if anyone more seasoned than me (and on this board there’s so many of you) feels inclined to make a suggestion, I would be very grateful…
THanks very much.
jason p
Los Angeles
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I cut like that all the time. The only difference is that after I have the duration of my cut to the required broadcast time (which is why I cut in drop-frame timeline) and everything is picture-locked and approved, I create a new 29.97 NDF sequence and copy paste shots from my picture-locked timeline into that – making sure the 2-pop and the show starts at the correct 1:00:00:00 mark. From there is simply export a NDF edl and then convert that to a 23.98 edl with cinema tools.
Works every time for me.
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DK Davis / Editor/ Post Super
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Format of Hd masters?
Were the DVCam tapes tc matched to masters?
Why are you thinking about this now?
Window burn on DV tapes?
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Export an EDL from FCP. Open Cinema Tools. Cancel any query it has about opening or accessing a DATABASE. Go FILE>EXPORT>EDL…30 to 24.
Import that EDL into FCP. Might have issues with speed changes, but that is what I have done.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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[Shane Ross] “Export an EDL from FCP. Open Cinema Tools. Cancel any query it has about opening or accessing a DATABASE. Go FILE>EXPORT>EDL…30 to 24.
Import that EDL into FCP. Might have issues with speed changes, but that is what I have done.”
Just curious. Does that work if the 30fps footage was drop-frame?
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[Sean ONeil] “Just curious. Does that work if the 30fps footage was drop-frame?”
Yes.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net
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