HVX200, 1080i/24p imports as 1080p30 to FCP, Reverse Telecine doese not work

[Shane Ross]

[Matthew Skala] “Now the footage comes in at DVCPROHD 1080p30 and reverse telecine doesn’t work. what is going on?? Is a log and transfer issue?”

No, it is a shooting format issue. You shot 1080i 24p…the frame rate for that is 29.97 progressive. It has the film look. If you wanted to git 1080i 24p at 23.98, then you needed to shoot 1080i 24pA…ADVANCED. That is the option where you can remove the Advanced pulldown to get to 23.98. YOu shot 29.97 progressive.

[Matthew Skala] “Also whats up with log and transfer. What do the prores transcoding options do? Nothing? the file still comes in with DVCPROHD Codec. I’m confused.”

Those options are for AVCIntra and AVCHD only…look again at those settings. Notice that they say they are for AVCIntra and AVCHD. DVCPRO HD comes in native…no recompression. AVCI and AVCHD have no native support, they need to be recompressed as ProRes.

Shane

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[Matthew Skala]

That wasn’t always the case though. Before Final Cut supported 24pa you where able to reverse telecine 24p footage. That is the workflow I used to use. So why is that not working now? should I install an older version of Final Cut? the project is already shot at 24p, I need to be able to reverse telecine to get rid of the extra frames and jaggies.

Matt

[Shane Ross]

Try it then. What happens? Or is it not able to do it? Try Cinema Tools if not.

Shane

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[Bryan Gaynor]

I’m having the same issue- my cinematographer shot 1080i 24p (not 24pA) and the footage comes into FCP as 1080p 30p which you’re saying is right, but it can’t be right- the footage is all interlaced and gross. I need to delivery a full res to BRAVO this afternoon, but I can’t figure out how to make the footage look decent. What should I do?!?
Thanks,
B

[Adam Zay]

Hey Bryan did you figure out a solution??? im stuk on the same boat…….
any help appreciated….

thanks

[Jason Hogan]

First off, by no means am I a pro videographer or editor but I’ve been doing tests to make sure I can put 7D and HVX200 footage in the same sequence in varying configurations.

I shot 1080i 24p footage on the HVX, did a log & transfer, did a batch list conversion of the capture scratch .mov files to Prores 422LT in Mpeg Streamclip (checked deinterlace), imported the footage into FCP.

I imported the footage to a 23.98 timeline (with some 7D 1080p 24p footy) and rendered. It looks great to me. Maybe I’m doing this the hard way or the wrong way but for my purposes it works.

I hope this is helpful, if not sorry for wasting your time.