Capture 330 Footage to FCP

[Jesse Rosen]

The camera adds the pulldown on output – what you end up with in Final Cut in this case is a 1080i/59.94 clip with embedded pulldown. You can drag this clip directly into a 1080i/59.94 sequence (in whatever codec you’ve chosen in your capture settings). If you want to edit in 24, you can use Cinema Tools to remove the pulldown, leaving you with 1080P/23.976 clips – ready for editing in a 24P timeline.

As you can see, it’s really much much much more convenient (and higher quality, I might add) to deal with this footage natively. Considering the nominal cost of a FCP 5.1 upgrade, I think you’d be better off going that route.

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Jesse Rosen
Director of Technical Development
Abel Cine Tech, Inc.