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resolve and frame rates
Hey Folks,
Very excited my film will be graded on Resolve 8. Plan to export xml and let the colorist go to town.
One thing I’m wondering… my FCP timeline is 23.98, but its loaded with lots of formats at various framerates. Some stuff is 720p and timeline is 1080p. It all looks great on the FCP timeline and FCP has done the proper pulldowns (like from 59.94) for 23.98. Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on how resolve will like such a potpourri of media!?
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[Tom Durham] ” FCP has done the proper pulldowns (like from 59.94) for 23.98.”
Hmm. When did they fix that? And how did it figure out the ABCD dominance, or was it flagged AP?
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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Actually… they didn’t fix anything. After many many hours of tribulation, I was able to coerce FCP into doing the pulldown right. Basically, if you’ve got 59.94, flagged for 23.98, and you edit it onto a 23.98 timeline, it MAY or MAY NOT do the pulldown right. You know it didn’t if you get duplicate frames. So, all you do is re-edit the clip onto the timeline again, but change your start frame by ONE FRAME. Then it works. Basically, you have to go through your edit and do the re-edit maneuver to all the clips that stutter. Works great, but I wonder what resolve with do with it. As far as the 59.94 that is actually 59.94 slo mo, it seemed to handle those ok.
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I did a job recently with different frame rates and found the best way was to grade all the 24fps clips in a 24fps Resolve project, 25fps in a 25fps project etc.
I split the FCP timeline up with 25fps on V1, 24fps on V2, and 29.97 on v3 then made a separate timeline of each layer and media managed each one with handles, made an EDL and graded them in Resolve.
Relink in FCP and merge the three timelines back together. Worked a treat! I used the gallery stills to match grades between the three (24, 25, 29.97) Resolve projects.
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Or, you may choose to convert all media to 23.98 in FCP before grading. It would depend on how much of your film is non 23.98 footage. If it’s some b-roll here and there, it would definitely be nice to pre-convert and have everything work together in Resolve. However if it’s a large part of the film I would opt for Brendan’s method.
Having varying resolutions isn’t an issue, though. 720 footage can be automatically scaled up if the settings are correct in Resolve.roman hankewycz
harbor film company // colorist
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