Can I convert 30P shot material into 24P?

[Mark Maness]

https://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/standardsconversion.htm

The filter set will cost you about $100 but very well worth it.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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[Caton Clark]

Thanks for the response Wayne.

Sadly, I don’t think anyone here si willing to buy anything.

Is there anything I can do within FCP?

Thanks.

[Mark Maness]

You could possibly use Cinema Tools for this or use you could use Compressor (but you might run into some sync problems). I’d look over the documentation for Cinema Tools and see what it says on this subject.

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Wayne Carey
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[Caton Clark]

Ok, one more question.

I took it on faith that the material was shot 30P, since that’s what they told me, but I just looked at the clip’s item properties and it is saying the clip is lower field first / 29.97.

Would FCP make that conversion on capture or does that mean that the material was actually shot interlaced?

Thanks.

[Mark Maness]

Sounds like the material was captured 29.97 Interlaced. You can do this. The material should have been captured at 30p.

Take a look at you 24p footage…. Does it say that its 23.98?

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[Caton Clark]

The material that was supposedly shot 24P is also coming up as 29.97 interlaced, which is what it looks like they set up the project to do.

Would it be best just to have them convert the tape? Or can we reload it at 30P and then export it at 24P?

The producers are seeing a slight difference in the quality between the 24P material and the 30P material, so basically i just need to find a way to make them look similar.

Thanks for all of your help.

[Jeremy Garchow]

What kind of camera is this coming off of?

[Caton Clark]

The production manager just spoke with the shooter’s agency and it sounds like the camera he used had a setting that changed the look of the footage and converted it to 29.97 while the other camera people used a lower quality looking setting that the camera also converted into 29.97.

So it sounds liek there’s nothing i can do through FCP.

Thanks everyone for the help.

[Arnie Schlissel]

[cmc2008] “Sadly, I don’t think anyone here si willing to buy anything.”

That doesn’t leave them any options, does it? $100 is nothing over the cost of any production. If it’s they think it’s important to the look of the show, that’s probably the cheapest good option they have.

[cmc2008] “The production manager just spoke with the shooter’s agency and it sounds like the camera he used had a setting that changed the look of the footage and converted it to 29.97 while the other camera people used a lower quality looking setting that the camera also converted into 29.97.”

All standard def NTSC video is 29.97 interlaced. That’s not some arbitrary thing that FCP does, that’s a broadcast standard mandated by the US government. 24P & 30P are recorded to tape inside of an interlaced stream.

Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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[Jeremy Garchow]

CMC, can you please tell me what kind of footage you are capturing from? Is it tape, tapeless, HDV, SD, Mpeg4, 3g cell phone, Security Cam.

Please?