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Converting 29.97i to 23.98p
I apologize for this basic question, but its been awhile since I have had to convert frame rate on media and reading all the threads has my head hurting with terminology.
I am working in a 1080p/23.98 timeline because most of the footage is shot on RED. However, we were provided with a 29.97i SD QT file of some B-Roll. I thought I took the proper steps to convert the file for my timeline, but maybe I am not remembering things right.
I deinterlaced in Compressor with frame controls run at 100% of source and got a new file running at 29.97 with no fields. Is this called 30p or 60p?
I ran this new file through reverse telecine in Cinema Tools and have a file now running at 23.98.The new file is not about 15 min longer then the original file and I can see from the window burn in the original file that frames have been duplicated. Isn’t this the opposite of what should happen? Or is this correct. I thought that it would pull frames out so that the timecode burn would be missing frames.
Any insight to my process and a better explanation of adding and removing frames would be very much appreciated.
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Oops, I meant conform. (Too many projects going on at once)
Am I correct in that if I did the process correctly, and I framed through, that I would see frames missing in the TC burned into the original footage and that the file would not be longer in time length.
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Sounds like you want a 60i to 24p conversion and not a conform. As Dave indicated, a 30 to 24 conform in Cinema Tools will simply alter the playback frame rate to 24 and increase the duration slowing down the footage. If you want to maintain duration and audio sync you need to convert. If this is the case – do not de-interlace – it’s easier and smoother to pick 24 frames from 60 fields than it is from 30 frames.
Cinema Tools will not do this conversion. Compressor will but I don’t know if it picks frames from fields or does a courser job from de-interlaced frames. I prefer Episode, as Compressor’s frame controls require a degree in voodoo to make sense of. Another option is ReVision’s Twixtor and FieldKit plug-ins.
In sort, you will end up with frames missing not repeated or maintained.
John Heagy
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Right. I want pull down correct?
I will look at those other software, but isnt there an easier way to do this in FCP and compressor?
The offline files were just given to us on a DVD that was ripped to 29.97 DV-NTSC, but the online files are going to be provided on digibeta. I think with our capture card we can introduce the pulldown, but one set of the the offline was conformed (slowed) not converted (pulldown).
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I know this is rather late, but for posterity purposes…
https://philipbloom.net/2009/05/30/how-to-convert-canon-5dmk2-footage-from-30p-to-24p/
works flawlessly. An extra step of transcode, but Apple ProRes can handle it.
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