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Normalizing Speed/Adding Pulldown for Film Transferred to mini-DV By Telecine
Hi Everyone,
At my university, they transfer the film at 29.97 to mini-DV without adding any pulldown, so the film seems a bit fast when played on video. Is there anyway to effectively normalize the speed by adding pulldown or some other method in Final Cut Pro?
Thanks,
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15 Replies
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I’d re-transfer real fast.
Jerry
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These are 16mm daylight spools that I received from my school, and they have an in house transfer facility, which they don’t add pulldown for some reason.
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Do they do a one to one frame conversion? You need more information on what that telecine is doing. Find out the type of telecine and how (or even IF) it is synchronized.
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I’ll try and find out more, but there will be no sync sound on this project. It’s a silent film with non-synchronous sound.
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Are you finishing on video? If you are never going back to film and have no sync sound, then you don’t need to reverse telecine. Just have fun editing.
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Considering that it is appearing speed up, the conclusion I have come to is that it’s basically running 24 fps footage at 29.97 with nothing to compensate for the speed change that would cause.
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I’m not likely going back to film, this is for a class, and it will be projected on DV tapes. My only concern is that it looks too fast.
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Conform the clips to 23.98. Cut in a 23.98 timeline. If you have to output to DV tape, Final Cut will add 3:2 pulldown on output.
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Yeah, the last response by Mike Most is right. Open up Cinema Tools, cancel the Open dialog that comes up when you start the program, and look under the File menu for “Batch Conform”. When this dialog comes up, navigate to your folder with all your media files and select one of them. Hit Conform and select 23.98. Create a 23.98 project in FCP and re-import your media, then start cutting.
Good luck,
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If the film ran at 29.97 during transfer and each film frame ended up as a single video frame just conform all the footage to 23.98 in Cinema Tools. This would get the speed back to normal without messing with fields. Then you work in 23.98 project. FCP can insert 3:2 field padding on the fly for monitoring.
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