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Horizontal distortion during movement
Hi, I’m log & transferring P2 footage off of a HD into my FCP. The director tells me it was shot DVCPRO HD 1080p24. When it comes into the FCP it shows as DVCPRO HD 1080p30. Why do you think that is? Director is sure it’s 24p.
I have a feeling this has something to do with the fact that there is horizontal tearing/distortion whenever there is movement in the frame.
This only appears in the viewer. It plays fine when I watch it in the timeline. What am I doing wrong? And is there any way to transcode it to ProRes 422 while transferring it in without round-tripping it out to Compressor afterwards?Thanks so much.
Chaz Shukat
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Its been a while since I did P2, but I believe it always shoots 60i but flags the 24 usable frames which you need to extract with the frame rate converter.
You need to run the footage through the Frame Rate converter in the Tools menu.
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Neil Sadwelkar
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Unless the camera was set to 1080p 24pA (where you can remove pulldown) the footage will be 29.97.
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Thanks guys. I dont know if the camera was set to 24pA, I was only told 24p. So I’m guessing that’s why the frame rate conversion didn’t seem to help (unless I did it all wrong which is entirely possible). So what I am doing as a solution is running each clip through Compressor and applying the ProRes422 for interlace. That seems to do the trick. It’s a pain though. Is there an easier solution?
Chaz Shukat
Author of “EDITING REALITY”
http://www.chazmoedit.com
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