Sony HVR-V1U / 1080i60_29.97 means true 29.97 or 23.98

[Mark Maness]

Well, set your Easy Setup to 1080p23.94. If you can see your video and it plays fine, then the video was shot 1080p23.94 in the camera.

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Wayne Carey
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[Ken Jones]

If you play back the the tape in the HVR-V1U it should show all that info on the flip-out display.

[Anhtu Vu]

Well Wayne, unfortunately it’s not that simple, wether you use Easy set up @ 1080p23.94 or 1080i60_29.97, they both work fine.

[Anhtu Vu]

ahhh! why didn’t i think of that 🙂 thanks

[Anhtu Vu]

oops talked too soon…i have no access to the original source footage so is there a way to find out from the captured files on FCP ???

[Scott Stolzar]

So I’ve dealt with 24p and the Z1U, so this may not be applicable. With that camera the footage had to be recorded in 24pA and then change the Easy Setup to HDV-Apple ProRes 1080p24 for capture. That would remove the 2:3 pulldown and make it play back at 23.98. If it was set to just normal HDV 1080p24 the pulldown would not be removed. Recording in just regular 24p on that camera would give the cadence of 24 but would in fact be recorded and then captured/edited at 29.97.

Without the tapes though, I don’t think there’s a way to tell whether the pulldown was marked on the tapes.

[Jeff Greenberg]

Try this:
Set the Canvas (or viewer) to 100%. This is the only way to see the fields in FCP.
Now, step through the footage, looking for areas of high motion.
If the footage looks like the fields are interlaced with the 3:2 pattern of frames (3 good frames, 2 very odd/interlaced frames)…over and over…then it’s truly 24 frames with a telecine field pattern.

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