720p60 3:2 Pulldown to 720p24 in Final Cut

[Brad Weston]

Well, by deleting the first frame of the source 60p content for those roughly 20% of clips that have frame doubling, it changes the starting point of the 3:2 cadence and fixes the problem. As the “frame” that is deleted is duplicated on frame 2, you’re not really losing anything, so far as I can tell.

So, I’ve tested it, and it appears that all is well with this method… what’s more, clips are now 2/5 the size they used to be, which is great. If clips are 24 frames, look good, and fit the timelines, do you see any other pitfalls that I’m missing (an answer of no at this point would be of great relief, for what it’s worth).

[Jeremy Garchow]

I see what you are doing now, you are trying to get FCP or compressor to just drop the pulldown frames. Instead of COmpressor, why can’t you just edit the clips in question one frame later?

I don’t really see a problem with this, it’s just that I have never tested it. If you can go through each converted clip frame by frame for a couple of seconds and not see a single dupe frame, you are golden.

Jeremy