Firestore

[Ned Soltz]

I’m not certain what you are getting at. Shoot 24p in the HVX. Import into FCP 5.1. At the bottom of the dialog box which comes up after Import -Panasonic P2 is a little check box which asks whether you wish to remove duplicate frames. Check it. Your footage will now have the pulldown removed which is effectively 24p native. Then edit in 23.98 timeline in FCP. I think it was Noah in this thread who said it…. and I emphasize… you must use FCP 5.1. FCP 5.0.4 does support P2, however there were some serious issues with rendered footage which were fixed by FCP 5.1. Besides you must have FCP 5.1 to upgrade to 5.1.2, due within weeks, which will make some major improvements to the P2 process (and this includes Firestore… just using the term P2 generically). Later this year, we will see a firmware upgrade to the FS-100 which will strip the duplicate frames at capture, making the removal in FCP unnecessary. And it will also increase the recording time of the FS-100 by a factor of 2.5 in 24 native mode.

Ned Soltz

[Barry Green]

[Ned Soltz] “Later this year, we will see a firmware upgrade to the FS-100 which will strip the duplicate frames at capture”

That’s what I was talking about. That’s what the question was — a way to make the FS-100 capture in the same way as 24pN. It doesn’t yet, it will be able to in the next firmware revision.

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[Neil Gelinas]

Alright, so at the end of the day, I guess what I’m missing is this dialogue box that prompts at import to remove the duplicate frames, which is available in 5.1 but not 5.0.4.

However, my problem being there are still issue with P2 footage imported into 5.0.4 when using 5.1 as pointed out here by Shane Ross –

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=193&postid=860527

I already have about a terabyte of footage imported with 5.0.4 for the series we’re presently working on. I guess maybe I’ll upgrade a few systems leaving most on 5.0.4, and hopefully, all will be well when 5.1.2 is released.

Barry, by the way, your book is great and has really come in handy out in the field. Thanks.

-neil

[Ned Soltz]

You will need 5.1 before you can upgrade to 5.1.2. So, you should do that crossgrade to 5.1 as soon as possible. Here is yet another reason in workflow for keeping your MXF files rather than just importing, rewrapping as Quicktime .mov, and then discarding the MXF’s. You would need to reimport the original MXF’s into FCP 5.1.1 or 5.1.2 and strip the duplicate frames.

Ned Soltz