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A good ol’ fashioned frig-up…
Here’s a good ol’ fashioned frig-up for ya…
23.976p project in an Avid Adrenaline. Shot 24pA on a Canon XL2.
Ha! They fooled me! It took a week’s worth of editing before I looked closely at my timeline, and saw timecodes such as 01:02:36:27.
27 frames? In a 24p project? It turns out that the DP selected 24p on the camera’s menu, but never actually hit ENTER. Thus, the tapes are all 30i.
Aah, but the brains in jars over at AVID prove their genious once again! A 23.976 (24p drop) project will automatically adjust the timeline to 30i, if 30i footage is what you feed it. No bad interpolations and no dropping of the extra 6 frames. It just works – wohoo! Luckilly for the producer, I’m onlining the project too. Don’t want to think about the compatability issues of sending this timeline out.
Panasonic miniDV tape – $3.99
Canon XL2 – $2,179.00
Seeing the look on the producers face after this news? – Priceless.______
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\`(=)`/…Pixel Monkey
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Thanks for the compliments…
The Avid can track both a 24 frame and a 30 frame drop or non drop timecode as a master allowing you to correctly track any delivery format needed.
You can also track total frames, 24fps, 25fps, 25fps with pulldown, 30 drop, 30 non drop, 30 with no pulldown, feet+ frames (35mm, 3 perf, 35mm 4 perf, 35mm 8 per, 16mm, 65mm 5, 8, 12, and 15 (IMAX)) all in the timeline.
The sources can be tracked the same way – the START will always be 30 because the sources are truly 30fps.
Michael
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