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Frame rate problem, lost clips
Hoping somebody might be able to help me out with this.
I’ve been editing a music video on FCP, and was basically finished. I came across the ‘conform 25 to 24 fps’ option under ‘tools’ on the toolbar, and thought I’d give it a try to see the effect.
My problem is that the clips which I tried to do this on have now gone offline, and the entire original clip which they came from has gone offline. I couldn’t see how to undo this, and when I don’t save the project and open it back up, the clips are still offline. I also can’t reconnect them, as when I try, I’m told that the frame rates don’t match, so if I do it, I don’t see the clip that I had originally put there, but instead, the 24 fps clip (which is at a different part in the original footage).
If I can’t reverse this problem, then I’m going to have to do those parts all over again, and then try to fit them into the rest of the video.
Does anyone have an idea how to rectify this. Or are there maybe ways around it?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Anthony.
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Sorry to say this, but you did something that cannot be undone. And it was the wrong thing to do in the first place. CONFORM isn’t an effect. It changes the frame rate of the master clips permanently…cannot be undone. So if your footage was 25fps, and you conformed it to 24fps, all the clips now play slightly faster. And yes, they are offline because they no longer match the original clip data. This is why it is always advisable to duplicate your footage before you conform. But how should you know this, really? This information is buried in the manuals somewhere.
The only thing I can see to do now is you have to re-import the footage into a new project, and then re-edit the project. You might be able to export an EDL of the original cut, so you can get approximate timecode numbers (they will be different now, you changed the frame rate)…but this is basically a do over. And now your project is no longer PAL, but rather FILM in terms of frame rate.
Sorry, tough lesson to learn.
Shane
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