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FCP and FRC Plug-in. Clips are half the length of what I logged.
I am using FCP 4.5 with an AJA Kona 2 card importing footage shot at 48fps for 24fps playback. I am using the “DVCPRO HD Varicam” settings for capture and sequence and the clips are coming out looking great…
except that the clip is only half the length of what I logged. If I specify and in/out point with a clip that is 10 seconds long at 48fps, I would expect a clip to land in my bin that is 20 seconds when converted to 24fps. Instead it cuts the clip in half, leaving a 10 slo-moed second clip, but only the first half of the original 48fps clip.
The workaround has been to log the clip with the desired in/out and then just double the duration, extending the out point far enough the get the clip I want.
Is there a better way?
Thanks,
Gabe
Hatfield Post/Production, Inc.
819 W. Superior
Chicago, IL 60622
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Don’t know much about this but we just did a job using the varicam as well but before we did we were warned of this problem. The camera man was instructed to shoot only half a tape and record the rest of the tape with colour bars. I was amazed to hear this. Apparently it’s a bug with FCP 4.5. So the only way to solve it is to either capture twice what you want or (what I did) dub the varicam footage to Digi before capturing. Maybe it’s time to upgrade to v5.
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