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Editing with Varicam footage – need help please
Hi All
I have footage that was shot in 24p with Panasonic’s Varicam and then downconverted to DV at 29.97 to edit with. My question is…can I make an EDL that will be accurate if I am editing in a 29.97 timebase and the producers eventually want to online a master copy from the HD tapes?
I came in on this project very late in the game (it’s not how I would have done it)…but we currently have the offline version done and sitting in a 29.97 editing timebase. Is it ok? If not, can I just copy it into a 23.97 sequence??
Very confused and would appreciate any help. Thanks.
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Hi Allyson,
Try posting this in the Avid Editing forum as well, and hope Michael P. responds. His experience in 24p is staggering. In the meantime, here’s my “sort-of” experienced two cents: (note I’m an Avid guy and this may not apply to FCP, etc)
If you play a 29.97 timeline onto a 24p tape right now, you’ll see some skippage. Now that the sequence is 29.97, I’m pretty sure it’s stuck there. Only way out of it is to create a new sequence in an HD project and batch digitize the media in HD. 30fps and 24fps both factor themselves mathmatically into an HD project because the frame rate is 60fps. Once it’s recreated, you can lay it to tape, transcode it or export it however you wish.
I think I’m 75% right on this, but it’s all booksmarts – I haven’t done it in over 8 months, so good luck.
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