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Reversed telecine clips back to 29.97 ?
I’m in a situation where I need to send an offline of footage which was captured 29.97 and then reversed telecined in Cinema tools and then edited to a 23.98 timeline.
The problem I see is that the online (on symphony) will try to recapture the batch using 23.98 TC on 29.97 tapes. Is there a way to convert the timecode of my reversed telecine clips back to 29.97 ? Has anyone ever faced this situation before?
thanx
P.S.: yes, I shouldn’t have reverse telecine the clips…
P.P.S: no I didn’t know I was doing an offline… -
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Export an EDL. Use Cinema tools to convert the EDL to a 29.97 frame rate. Give the newly converted EDL to the Symphony folks.
Before you do this, remove any filters or plugins from your footage. And your project can be cuts and dissolves only. Speed changes or any FCP transitions will not translate to the Avid Online.
Any reason you can’t online using FCP?
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[Shane Ross] “Export an EDL. Use Cinema tools to convert the EDL to a 29.97 frame rate. Give the newly converted EDL to the Symphony folks.
maybe it’s too late for me to think, but looking at the timecodes, I presume it will drift from the conversion of 23.93 back to 29.97. But now that i’m writing this, I think I overlooked the fact that minutes and seconds doesnt change when switching from 23.98 to 29.97, so my previous sentence is pure misunderstanding.
And looking at the time (the real one, not timecode), I presume I should just go sleep and let it go…
Any reason you can’t online using FCP?”
Many reasons, not much technical ones 😉
thanx for the help.
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It works fine. 24fps EDL from FCP, Cinema Tools to convert it to 29.97, online in Avid Symphony. You might get a frame drift on the out points, but it should sail right in otherwise.
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Shane,
Can you step me through converting an 24p EDL to a 29.97 EDL in CINEMA TOOLS? I’ve tried this several times, but Cinema Tools doesn’t seem to read my edl’s from FCP.Thanks
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Export EDL from FCP.
Open Cinema Tools. Click CANCEL when it asks to create a new database.
Go to FILE>EXPORT>CONVERTED EDL. Select 24fps from 30fps. Select your EDL and click OK.
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