Digitising Varicam 25fps / 60fps into PAL project

[Terence Curren]

Just tried it and you are correct. Thought it would work if the effect was promoted and then removed, but no dice.

The painful option, which you might want to wait until the offline is finished for, would be to send out a QT reference of the clips from the 60 project, then import that into the 25P project.

Make sure to change the console command that allows the QT to come in frame for frame.

“ignoreqtrate” is a toggle command. When it toggles to “true” then it will ignore the incoming rate and bring it in frame for frame.

Terence Curren
http://www.alphadogs.tv
http://www.digitalservicestation.com
Burbank,Ca

[Bruce Law]

Thanks for trying that out. Elsewhere it has been suggested that the motion effect could be promoted to timewarp and adjusted to 100%. Were you able to promote the motion effect at all?

[Terence Curren]

Yes, I was able to promote it. Didn’t even think about the 100 percent, I’m sure that will work. I’ll test it out today.

Terence Curren
http://www.alphadogs.tv
http://www.digitalservicestation.com
Burbank,Ca

[Bruce Law]

The engineer at our post facility got a chance to test out the promote-and-adjust-to-100% method late this evening. He has tentatively told me that it seems to work. This is fantastic news, but we are still holding our horses for a while just in case there are any other complications or implications we haven’t discovered yet.

So far, though, this seems to be the way forward.