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Different frame rate, need to multi-cam edit
Hi,
This past weekend, I had a three-camera shoot. But they were not recording at the same frame rates. Two cameras were recording at 30fr and one was recording at 24. I would like to use the multi-cam edit feature in final cut, but it isn’t allowing me to with the different frame rates.I tried Compressor, but it doesn’t have a 30 fr option and I also tried exporting it at 30 frames, but final cut doesn’t like the different codecs.
Any ideas?
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7 Replies
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What kind of cameras? If they are Sd cameras, all of the tape transports or tapeless media was recorded at 29.97 fps. You will be fine, although the motion characteristics will be different for each camera.
Please give more details in exactly what format the three cams recorded.
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Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for getting back so quickly.
I was shooting on two HVX 200. One format was 720/30pn and the other was 720/24pn. I was also shooting on a little handheld camera. AVCHD 1080/30.
Maranatha
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What do you think the dominant angles will be? Do you think you will use the 720p stuff more or the 1080 or is it really a combo of all three?
Jeremy
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It’s definitely a combination of all three, but the 720/30pn has the sound so that’s the most important angle of all.
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Well, you have some options. You can put everything in a 720p60 timeline and that will sort out the time base (the proper pulldown will get added to the pn material and the 1080i material will eventually need to be deinterlaced, but it will play fine in a 720p60 timeline).
Or, you need to convert everything to the same codec and frame rate to make multi clips in the browser. The easiest way to do this is to take all of your raw footage and run it through compressor. I would convert everything to 720p60 DVCPro HD. There’s some tricks, though, that you will need to do to get this right.
Jeremy
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Okay.
I have about 500GB of information, so putting it in a 720p60 timeline might be the best option for me. That would make it possible to use the multi-cam option? Is there anything else I need to do?
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[Maranatha Hay] ” That would make it possible to use the multi-cam option?”
I take that back. It won’t work. You need to have the clips have the same frame rate in the browser for multiclip to work.
If you put everything in a 720p60 timeline, you’d have to do a split screen type thing to edit.
Jeremy
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