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  Film Offline to HD Online questions

  Posted by Chapfilmguy on August 15, 2006 at 8:30 pm

  Hey everyone,

  I am an experienced Final Cut Pro user, working mainly in television, and am starting a new film project with a few questions.

  We shot a feature length film, Super 16, one-light telecined to DigiBeta that was downconverted to DVCAM for us to offline edit on our Final Cut system. We were provided with Flex files for each reel and we’re currently batching everyting in from the Cinema Tools Database we created into Final Cut.

  Then we plan to edit the film and upon final cut, export a cut list to the film lab to re-telecine selects of the film, as a best-light, to HD. We plan to do the online and finalize everything in HD. Then possibly do a print out to film once the HD master is complete.

  Two main questions:

  1. Should we edit in 29.97, which is what we’re currently diging our footage in right now? Or should we reverse telecine our clips and edit in 23.98? Remember our final format will be in HD.

  2. When we produce our final cut list (EDL or Final Cut Pro project), the lab is going to telecine the film to HD which will create new timecode information and new Flex files for the online footage. What is the easiest way for us to uprez the final project of the film from the original offline DVCAM footage to the new HD footage?

  Obviously most labs offer Online services, but we have the ability to online ourselves and would like to save that money. However we’re missing that step of cross-referencing the film keycode information with the DVCAM timecode to the new HD timecode. Is there an automated way to do this, in Final Cut, or Cinema tools?

  Thanks in advance.

  G5, dual 2Ghz, 2Gigs Ram, Final Cut Pro 5.04 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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