Film conversion help.

[Steve Roberts]

Check the Help on “pulldown”.

[Solie Swan]

You may also want to take a look at Standards Conversion from http://www.nattress.com which converts between NTSC, PAL and 24p right within FCP. Within AE Magic Bullet (I know it goes from 30i to 24 p but may go the other way too) and Twixtor may do it as well. Andrew Kramer also has a tutorial on frame rate conversions you can look at (videocopilot.net)that does not involve any 3rd party plugins.

[Arnold Foote]

Thanks everyone, I will check it out and let you know how it goes…

jj.foote@mac.com

[Brendan Thompson]

Remember that when converting from 24 to 30 fps you are repeating repeating some of the fields (I can never remember which ones). This becomes a problem when you have slowed down a shot or when a shot pans quickly. Some frames will have fields that are so different from one another it causes a stuttering effect. So you might still get some stuttering even after your pulldown.

[Arnold Foote]

Thanks for that but now I have another problem.
The footage I digitized was at 126 MB/sec or so, and after I did my after effects work, the data rate seems to be 28Mps. This info is from the FCP program window. What am I doing wrong for me to lose so much data?

jj.foote@mac.com

[Kevin Camp]

this is probably a better question for fcp forum, but you said you had hd to edit? what preset did you use to edit in? did you edit in a non-hd preset? it may be that your original footage was in a fatter codec than what you editted in, like a differnce in dvcprohd and hdv, and fcp may have converted/rendered the footage to the lesser codec. or possibly the footage was edited in a standard def preset, where the same effect would probably occur.

i haven’t worked much in fcp, i’m just theorizing…

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Arnold Foote]

I will check that out… thanks