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30FPS on a 24FPS timeline & Still Import question
Is there a way to shoot 30 progressive frames and then bring that into a 24 frame timeline without the 24FPS timeline crunching the footage as soon as it’s imported?
I’m doing this to avoid renting the DVCPRO 50 deck to the tune of $700 bucks. I have a one minute sequence and I shot in 24PA, so I’m manually deleting the junk frame. (It won’t interpret the footage to ‘remove pulldown’ for whatever reason – I’ve searched high and low for that issue as well)
I can make this work by exporting the 30 fps timeline as still frames, and then import them into the 24 frame timeline, but is there a way to have FCP bring in the frames defaulted as “Anamorphic?” Or is there a way to change all the frames to anamorphic at once? I’m doing this a frame at a time and it seems there must be a better way.
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Not gonna work well the way you’re doing this.
It would be best to use Cinema Tools to do the pulldown removal. The User’s manual there will guide you thru the steps.
Jerry
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I’m not familier with Cinema Tools. Are you saying that version FCP 5 works better with removing advanced pulldown than 4.5?
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I did want to let anyone else who finds themselves in this situation (yeah right) know that the end result worked like a charm.
The reason: Avoide the 750 bucks to rent a deck and have it shipped to and from Cleveland.
On the SDX900 camera we have the SDI out option. So we shot 24PA, brought it (SDI)into Final Cut a 29:97 timeline. Final Cut would NOT “interpret footage and remove pulldown.” Still don’t know why.
(on a side note: if you capture SDI at 24 frames you have a 1 in 5 chance at getting rid of the junk frame on the capture on the fly.)
The flow went like this:
Starting with DVCPRO50 24pa footage captured via blackmagic SDI on an uncompressed 29:97 timeline.1. Edited the entire scene on the 29:97 timeline.
2. Manually deleted the junk frame. On a 90 second piece this took about an hour. It gets pretty rhythmic after a while.
3. Export the timeline as an image sequence series of PSDs.
4. Set still import to “1 Frame”
5. Import the stills
6. Drop them on an uncompressed non-anamporphic 24 frame timeline, render – export as 24 frame DVCpro50 movie file
7. Bring it in to a new bin, set the new file to anamorphic, drop it onto the DVCPRO50 Anamorphic 24 frame timeline and voila.
Lots of steps, but it looks very clean, I know it gets compressed on step 6, but I saw no artifacts and for an evening’s worth of work we saved some serious coin.
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