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P2 Footage not Optomized for Final Cut
I’m shooting a project at 720 24p and I remove the extra frames on import. Each time I open the project I get a warning saying that the footage is not optomized for final cut. The footage is being completely handled through final cut and I assumed it was being optomized on import. Anyone experiencing the same thing or have any ideas?
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Removing pulldown on import? Why? Did you shoot 24PN? Did you shoot on a P2 card, or firestore?
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Both P2 and Firestore. I checked the remove duplicate and pull down frames on import. I shot 24p rather than 24pn because the firestore option is disabled on 24pn (is there a way around that). Otherwise all the footage has a frame rate of 59.94 on import. Am I doing something wrong? I got slammed into the P2 workflow on this project and haven’t had a chance timewise to get my head around it.
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It’s normal that you can’t use the pn modes with a firestore, it relies on a fixed data rate of 100 mbps, so you get frames padded at 24 fps to fill the rate up, and they need to be removed when with the FRC (frame rate converter) before editing.
Only the P2 cards allow to use all possible frame rates without dubbed frames, no need to use the FRC there.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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I too get the “not optimized for Final Cut” warning on my footage and all was brought in correctly I believe. I do not delete the duplicate frames when importing 24pn footage as there are no frames to drop. But alas, the footage edits just fine so far though we’re early in the edit of a feature length doc. I’m curious as well.
Don Wilson
AmericanaMediaInc.com -
[Don Wilson] “I too get the “not optimized for Final Cut” warning on my footage and all was brought in correctly I believe. I do not delete the duplicate frames when importing 24pn footage as there are no frames to drop. But alas, the footage edits just fine so far though we’re early in the edit of a feature length doc. I’m curious as well.”
I have not seen that message when importing 24pn footage, and we’re doing that about every other day. Not sure why you are seing that. Perhaps your sequence setting choice is incorrect?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro 5
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I have not gotten this on 24pn, but rather 24p footage. I think it might have something to do with the TC base of 60fps
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