OT: Converting 29.97 to 24p? And the repercussions of doing so?

[Darren Roark]

I’m running into this right now. The camera guy was told 23.98 and shot 30p because it should be “NTSC” in his mind. Ugh.

Question, was it interlaced or progressive? If it’s interlaced you can do a pretty good 23.98 conversion with magic bullet frames. Otherwise After Effects has a great pixel motion conversion.

[Joseph Owens]

[Jeremy Garchow] “My first choice, would be to try Compressor. Test both the best and better settings for the frame rate conversion option and of course make sure to leave duration at 100%.”

Now that I have a Teranex, that is what I would choose. Prior to this, Compressor has been the go-to, but it does take an enormous amount of time to achieve master-quality results.

“Good” isn’t, “Better” adds a zero to the end of the estimated conversion time, but is acceptable, and “Best” adds another zero to the time required, but it is not 10 times better.

and of course, YMMV.

jPo

“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Episode 6 is better than Compressor.

Be sure to see the advanced frame rate check box.

And yes Better is sometimes (most of the time?) better than Best using Compressor.

🙂

[Michael Lewis]

I’m working on a tv episode made all from stock footage. Most of it is from films whose editing timebase was 23.976. My timeline is also 23.976. The problem is, the film masters contains shots that I know were either shot at 29.97 and either conformed with cinema tools to 23.976 and then sped back up to 125% to play realtime, or just simply dropped in the timeline and exported. This is causing the episode to fail QC due to dropped frames all over the place. I don’t have access to a media managed version of the film, so if I were to run the film masters–or perhaps my entire episode–through the Teranex 2d with project settings at ProRes 422 1080p 23.976 for both playback and captures, would this fix my problem? What is the suggested workflow here? Are there any alternative software conversion suggestions, will mpeg streamclip, Episode 6, or some sort of Red Giant software be a solution as well? Thanks for your help.