how to change 29.97 – 24 timebase after sequence has been cut

[Walter Biscardi]

Create a new Sequence with the 24 timebase settings you want.

Do a Copy All in the 29.97 Sequence.

Paste that into the 24 timebase Sequence.

You will probably have some issues with interlacing and such, but that’s the quick and dirty way to do it.

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[Lu Nelson]

Hi, yeah it depends on whether your footage has pulldown of some kind in it; i.e. was already 24p at some point, or whether you are also talking about converting your 30i footage to 24p at the same time. There’s a way to do that; but it’s very time intensive. If it is a matter of removing pulldown you can try selecting your footage in the bin and choosing “Remove 3:2 Pulldown using Cinema Tools” or “Remove Advanced Pulldown” – the latter is done by FCP I think; both will result in your footage and therefore your edits (anywhere you used that footage) being converted correctly, except I’ve noticed that Cinema Tools is not good at guessing the pulldown pattern properly and might just make a mash of your footage instead so back up all the footage files first (just duplicate them to another drive in the Finder). If Cinema Tools cannot guess the pulldown on your clips right, then you have to find another tool (DVFilm “Maker” does a good job: dvfilm.com) to remove the pulldown for you. You can do this to another duplicate set of your footage and then replace the files that have been destroyed by Cinema Tools’ conversion…but in any case you’ve got to use either of the “remove pulldown” tools I mentioned in order to get FCP to also do the most important part which is converting the edits wherever your footage is used.

If you’re talking about converting your FOOTAGE as well (i.e. it is 30i footage and you want it to be 24p), then you can use the Cinema Tools step (in this case it will definitely ruin your footage) and then replace the resulting 24p files with 24p files that have been converted with a tool that does it correctly (again: DVFilm Maker, or Magic Bullet, or Apple’s own Compressor, which is perhaps the best, but is slow). This is a tricky one so think it through.

[Digartisan]

Most of the footage is infact 24fps.

So far i found by copying and pasting it all into a new sequence has pretty much worked.

[Dndobson]

FCP 5 also lets you remove the advanced pull down of already captured 24PAadvanced clips. (I think it’s under tools>remove advanced pulldown.) What I want to know is if there is away to remove the old fashioned regular pulldown of 24P. Seems like I have to go through After Effects to do that.