Capture and Edit 24p Normal

[Shane Ross]

You can capture 24P normal as 29.97 in FCP too. Just choose the DV/NTSC easy setup…capture and go. SImple. Do not choose the “23.98” options…just straight up DV/NTSC.

Shane

[Russell Lasson]

What do you mean by 24P “normal”?

Are you referring to 24PN on Panasonic P2 cameras?

Or are you referring to a standard 2:3 pulldown by calling it “normal”?

So where did the footage come from?

-Russ

[Shane Ross]

24PN stands for NATIVE. 24p NATIVE…meaning that the camera records 24 ACTUAL FRAMES of video…not 24 frames spread across a 29.97 frame rate.

#23 Differences between 24p and 24pA

Shane’s Stock Answer #23

Quoting Ken Stone’s site found at:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/24p_in_FCP_nattress.html

24p Normal
When shooting in 24p Normal, the camera is adding normal standard 3:2 pulldown to the video, which results in 24p footage designed to work with any non-linear editing suite and it will play back and look good directly to any NTSC monitor. You can use 24p Normal footage just like normal video from any DV camera, and everything will work fine, but obviously, the footage will have a film look to it. If you

[Russell Lasson]

Nice resource Shane. Hopefully that helps Filmmagic figure things out. I still don’t know if he really meant “normal” to mean standard 2:3 pulldown or if he just figured that it’s what the “N” stood for in 24PN.

So Filmmagic, if you haven’t figured things out yet, what camera and settings were used to shoot your footage?

-Russ

[Filmmagic]

Sorry Russ,
I’m shooting with a DVX100a and I’m referring to 24p/2:3.

Shane,
I did the Easy Setup like you said but the only problem was, the interlacing was pretty bad looking (motion looked like bad reception on a tv). However, if that’s just during the capture then I’m fine with it. I have done it in the past, though, and it produced bad results. My settings are this:

Capture Presets: DV NTSC 48 kHz
Sequence Presets: ” ” ” ” ” ” ”
Easy Setup: Format – all formats, Rate – 29.97, Use – DV-NTSC

Is this right or am I missing something? Settings in the capture window maybe?

~Bryan

[Shane Ross]

“Just during the capture…”

Looking at the capture window and try to judge quality? Don’t. That is just a small reference to show you what you have.

NOW…you said it looks fine afterwards? OK then…there should be no problems. If you DO have problems, you might have shot 24PA or something…who knows. You can do a test capture and remove the advance pulldown and see what that looks like.

Shane

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[Tom Brooks]

With today’s faster computers, shooting 24PA, editing in 23.98 and adding normal 2:3:2:3 pulldown when going back to tape should be no problem, should it? In other words, you’d shoot 24PA, but master to 24P.

A question: If you lay back to tape with the 2:3:3:2 pulldown of 24PA, will that be properly flagged on the tape to allow you to capture from that tape in the future as 24PA and automatically remove pulldown during capture?

Thx.

Final Cut Studio, FCP 5.1.4, After Effects 6.5 Pro, Quicktime 7.2, G5 Quad 2.5, Kona-LHe V3.4, 4.5GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7800-GT 256MB, G-RAID 2x1TB FW800, Mac OS-X 10.4.10.

[Filmmagic]

Shane,
Actually I had said that the results were bad, but I may have had the wrong setting going on or something because the result now is awesome. Very crisp picture. Thanks.

And thanks to everyone else for all your help.

~Bryan

[Filmmagic]

Shane,
Video looked good but audio was off sync. Thoughts?