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  • Logged in 23.976 – convert to 59.94???

    Posted by Kevin Thomas on March 16, 2009 at 3:46 am

    Half my footage was shot 1080i, half 720p.

    They were each digitized respectfully.

    I have to work in 1080i and need to convert
    the 720p logged clips to 1080i/59.94 and recapture.

    HOW????? Please help! No time left to manually
    re log and capture.

    THX

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    Kevin Thomas replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jessi Shaheen

    March 16, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    I found this awhile ago (probably from this here forum). Does this help you out?

    work in the 59.94 project:

    1) In the 23.976 project, select all the clips you’d like to use, and export them as QT reference files with the setting “Same as Source”.

    2) Close your 23.976 project, launch the 59.94 project, and import all the QT refs you just exported. The Avid will pad out 24p clips with 2:3 pulldown to create 59.94 media. This is how “24p over 60p” works, so the footage looks exactly the same. There’s no quality loss (that I’ve been able to discern), as it’s merely duplicating frames and copying them to another media file. There shouldn’t be any decompression/recompression going on. The QT reference is simply an intermediary file.

  • Kevin Thomas

    April 7, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    Thanks for the response.

    We ended up doing a few things to work around this issue.
    As this was the first time we had to integrate P2 footage
    with that shot on a Vari-cam, we had a few obstacles to overcome.

    Transcoding all the P2 DvcPro footage to Avid DNX was part of it.

    Go Cow!

    Life. Style. Never a Shortcut.

    No one knows everything, everyone knows something and sometimes we can’t remember
    anything… that when we go to the COW!

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