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Final Cut 6 doesn’t remove duplicate frames during DVC Pro HD import from firestore/P2
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Contact Apple support so they know it’s a widespread issue and fix it ASAP. As of right now, I’m having to boot off a backup drive with FCP 5.1.4 to do the import than boot back into 6 to work.
John Papola
Executive Producer / Director
Spike TV
New York, NY -
Under Tools you can choose “Remove Advanced Pulldown” on the imported 29.97 clips. This will remove the pulldown and convert them back to 23.98.
Not quite as good as doing this on import, but it’s a start.
Robert Longwell
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Unfortunately, this strips out the audio, so you’re better off keeping a drive with 5.1.4 around for capture.
John Papola
Executive Producer / Director
Spike TV
New York, NY -
Odd, I’m not having that issue at all.
Robert Longwell
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I’m not in front of my FCP Machine, but two questions for you. So when you use the convertion tool, it retains the audio in the new file? Second is, does it allow you to batch-convert?
John Papola
Executive Producer / Director
Spike TV
New York, NY -
Yes and Yes.
We’re shooting 1080/60i 24PA with 4 tracks mono audio. Upon import these come in as 29.97 with 4 tracks mono. I select all clips then under tools “remove advanced pulldown” and they are converted to 23.98 with 4 tracks mono.
Robert Longwell
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Hmm… the advanced pulldown is a different issue than the duplicate frames created in 720P (I think). I had used the “DVC Pro HD Frame Rate Converter” which strips out the audio. Interlaced mode with advance cadence is a different animal. Thanks for the tip though.
John Papola
Executive Producer / Director
Spike TV
New York, NY -
I am also having this problem on three different systems in my studio:
– 8-Core Intel
– Dual G5
– PowerBook G4On all three of these systems, we used to import 1080 24pA footage from P2 cards and FireStores without incident using the old “Import P2” interface in FCP 5.1.4.
Now, after upgrading to 6.0, “Log and Transfer” fails to remove the pulldown, resulting in larger files with 29.97 instead of the 23.98 we want.
Yes, it’s true that manually using “remove advanced pulldown” from the tools menu fixes the files, but it’s bogus that we suddenly have to do this, which adds a lot more time to the workflow.
Yes, my “remove advanced pulldown and duplicate frames” preference is indeed checked. This is definitely a bug in FCP 6.
Has anybody found a solution or received a response from Apple???
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I’ve reported the bug to Apple and the solution they provided I posted earlier with using the Tools/Remove Advanced Pulldown.
Robert Longwell
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So, apparently Apple’s recommended solution is to add an additional step in our workflows in order to utilize a feature that was working perfectly BEFORE we shelled out for their latest “upgrade?” That’s pathetic! Let’s hope enough people complain so that Apple fixes this egregious bug in their next service update – ASAP!
– Jordan
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