Edit 23.98, master to SR 59.94i DF. Concerned about mix drifting.

[Daniel Edelman]

Interesting- I didn’t think you could cross convert with Media composer. We do have Nitris DX boxes.
The real questions is, will there be sync issues if we lay off cross-converted video, and Pro Tools lays off audio afterwards.

[Michael Phillips]

No. If the picture and sound are in sync in the 23.976 project, then there will be no issue going out to 59.94 with pulldown as the audio has stayed 48kHz all the way through the process.

Michael

[Daniel Edelman]

Thank you. I’m being very cautious about the whole thing because we have a very tight turnaround. We lay the video down Thursday night, mix and audio layback is Friday, it’s QC’d Friday night, and it airs Saturday night. As you can see, there is zero room for error.

Dell Precision Workstation T5400:
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8GB ECC Buffered RAM
nVidia Quadro FX 3700
500GB 7200 RPM System Drive
2TB Internal SATA RAID 0 (2x 7200 RPM Burrered Drives)
Avid MC6

[Clement Hobbs]

If you’re that tight, then I’d stay at 23.98 for the tape out to Sr which guarantees a copy on tape that is correct.

Once you pass QC (Fri night/Sat AM) simply crossconvert the tape over to 59.94 either in house or at a lab with two decks. Just make sure you check the one hour mark to make sure it’s clean. I can’t remember if it will automatically be a clean frame or not when running the deck from say a 57:30:00 tape start. You may need to do a separate edit at the one hour mark to make sure you’ve got a 100% clean solid frame there.

If you only have the one deck, you could crossconvert from your QC’d 23.98 master to 59.94 and ingest back into the Avid (in a 59.94 project), then out from the Avid at 59.94 to a new tape. Long but it works.