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Mixing framerates
I’m playing around with MC 5 to get up to speed with the Media Composer workflow, and I’m importing footage of varying framerates and formats to see how they play together.
My project format is 1080p 23.976. I used AMA to link to some Alexa footage that I’ve transcoded to DNx36 for a typical offline workflow. I’m now trying to import some dv footage as a test. The footage was shot on a GL2 and is most certainly 29.97 but once Avid converts it to MXF, it shows up as 23.976. I’ve noticed that if I change my format to 23.976 NTSC and then import it, it will fast import however when I open the FPS column, it’s still being tagged as 23.976.
I’m glad this is a test as opposed to having to learn this on the job, but am I going about this incorrectly? Is there an import setting I’m missing? I turned on clip colors in the timeline to show different framerates, and it labeled it yellow to denote it was SD versus HD, but not in the specified color to denote it as 29.97 versus 23.976
Interestingly, the timecode in the source window goes up to 30, and when I step through frame by frame, I can see that stepping 24 frames increments the timecode through 30. It just seems weird that the format column calls it 23.976.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks