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capturing 24p footage in FCP from the HVR V1U (using deck m-15_)
I shot about 30 minutes of test footage with my V1U, and imported into FCP with AIC 1080i easy set up. When I initialized log and capture, rather than showing the window, it asked if i wanted to capture now, which I did. brought in the clips ALA I movie, each scene as its own clip. Footage comes into FCP great, other than lack of deck contol, but I noticed the repeated 5th frame on each clip which gave the footage a stutter. So I right clicked the original clips in the capture scratch, and opened them up in cinema tools, preformed a reverse Telecine chosing feilds DD, and frame rate of 23.98 and brought the clips into a new sequence set to edit at 23.98. I noticed with some clips this worked great, no repeated fifth frame, and others nothing changed. So I did tests on 3 clips, choosing each field and saving the rev telecine for each field chosen, and noticed that I could achieve my goal of getting progressive footage, but it was a crap shoot for each clip. I beleive this is because of the GOP theory, and that depending on where the clips start, depends on the field, but wondering if there is an easier way to do this, other than rev telecining each clip 5 times to get what I want. I also read that in 24p mode, it should have a 3 2 pulldown, meaning that it should work just fine in a 29.97 timeline, yet I am getting that repeated 5th frame. Sorry for the long post, and I know this has been discussed, but I couldn’t find anything that directly equated to the rev telecine crapshoot I am doing each time I use cinema tools.
Thanks!
Jesus
http://www.zeechproductions.com
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Why are you bringing in using AIC? Its an inferior codec, and second, you’re clearly introducing pulldown issues without any need to do so.
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David, I am using this codec because I read a post from a fellow V1U user that this was the proper codec to use when capturing HDV footage, because FCP isn’t up to speed with the V1U yet. If you have any other suggestions I am open!
thanks
jesus -
I had the same prob with my v1u…
capture 24pa,and you will be fine. -
Curious, what settings in FCP do you use to capture the 24pa footage? I was told to use AIC codec, and as you can see from the very ininformative post above yours that that is the wrong codec. So, I tried HDV 1080i easy set up, which works and gives me deck control, but I can’t do reverse telecine in cinema tools. I am so confused!!
thanks for any info you can provide,jesus
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I use aic, so do alot of other users, it seems that this is our only
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BTY, I meant to say shoot 24A as opposed to 24 in the progressive menue.
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So just to clarify, when you shot 24pa mode (advanced) you capture with AIC and then run it through cinema tools? Do you have to experiment with the cinema tools settings to get it to become pure 23.98 frames? Also, when you shoot in the other modes, what do you set up do you use to capture in FCP? Thanks, anything to make this more clear is paid for with good karma!!
jesus
http://www.zeechproductions.com
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