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720 50p p2 Frame rate convert in FCP 6.0.3- Not
Hello,
Im getting problems frame rate converting 720p50/720p59.94 material from P2 media.
the footage is DVCPro HD 720p50, but when I go to the DVCPro HD Frame Rate converter I get this message:
‘The Selected Media File cannot be processed by this tool,
Only DVCPro HD 720p59.94 and 50 fps Media files are supported’Its version 6.0.3 with QT 7.5, also tried with 7.4.5
Any help greatly appreciated
Thanks
Ryan.
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4 Replies
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I’m having the same problem, with 720p60 footage (at 59.94 fps) from an HVX200 refusing to convert to 23.98 fps
One common solution to the problem is apparently to import the clips in a new, empty project, and try converting. That hasn’t worked for me, though.
You could also try to Conform your clips using Cinema Tools, but as far as I could tell, clips that won’t convert using the DVCPRO HD Frame Rate Converter within Final Cut Pro will also not conform in Cinema Tools. It says the clip has temporal compression, which from my understanding of the DVCPRO HD codec is simply impossible. Looks like a bug in either QuickTime or Final Cut Pro…
To try the Cinema Tools method, just launch it and select Open Clip from the File menu, then click Conform. If “Conform” is grayed out, chances are you’re experiencing the same bug as I do, and so far I haven’t found a perfect solution to this.
The workaround is to export the clips to the exact same format they are currently in (720p50 DVCPRO HD in your case) using QuickTime Player (should also work with Final Cut Pro, but I haven’t tested), and then try the DVCPRO HD Frame Rate Converter on that clip. The downside, besides the fact that it is time-consuming, is that you lose a little bit of quality because you are actually recompressing the footage a second time. The quality loss might not be visible, but it is there.
If anybody has a better solution, I’d love to hear it.
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I re-imported the clips from P2 with the audio box unchecked and this sorted it for me, I dont know about 23.98 though.
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That’s interesting. Unfortunately I no longer have the data on P2 media. I did try extracting the video track using QuickTime Player to get rid of the audio without recompressing, but that didn’t work either. I’m not sure where to go from here, short of waiting for a QuickTime update that somehow fixes this problem, if indeed it is a bug in QuickTime.
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same problem here…
no more original 2p files. only qt video files with 50p unique frames per second which i can see going frame per frame.
what to do?!
G5 Dual 2.7 Ghz, 4.5 Gb RAM, Leopard 10.5.3, QT 7.5
DVD Studio Pro 4, Final Cut Pro 6.0.3, Compressor 3
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