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Doing an Online… 23.98 to 29.97 and back to 23.98. HELP!
I know this is an age old question and that this type of work has been going on for a while but I have tried to figure out a good work flow and I just keep getting stumped.
Film exists HD, 23.98. A DV clone (29.97) was made for the trailer editor to use to cut the trailer. The trailer editor has given me the 29.97 FCP project and I have to create an online from the original 23.98 master. The step I need help with is the conversion of the 29.97 timeline to a 23.98 timeline that will match the code on the master so that when I create an offline and re-batch it will all match up.
I’m guessing you use Cinema Tools. I have suggested editing from a 23.98 low-res file instead of digitizing a 29.97 DV tape. Just makes no sense as why to go back and forth and create that headache… but this is how the company who owns the film wanted to do it.
Any suggestions or help would be great. I can do an eye match and digitize with enough handles to work it out but I know there has to be a more precise workflow for this since that was how it was done years ago before the introduction of faster drives and better codecs.
Thanks in advance.
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Export an EDL of the final sequence. Note that any effects beyond a dissolve will not transfer. No flashy or blurry transitions, no composite modes…just basic cuts, because EDLs are VERY old technology.
Use Cinema Tools to convert the 30fps EDL to 24fps. Import that EDL into a new project…recapture.
And next time, reverse telecine the captured DV footage to get the proper frame rate.
Shane
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Thanks for your input Shane… That makes sense. I always tell these people just to get digitized files at the same frame so it saves us all a few steps. Doesn’t always work out that way, and they don’t always have control.
Thanks again.
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