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Varicam Frame Rate Conversion – slo-mo
Hello,
We are shooting some footage with the Varicam and editing on FCP. We have success when converting from 720/60p to 23.98. The slo-mo is quite nice. Now the DOP wants to shoot frame rates of 37 or 40. Am I to understand that the frame rate converter plug-in for FCP can only slow down footage that is 59.94? What are our options for these other frame rates?
Or, because the footage has to come out onto the DVCPro tape as 59.94 are we home free? Will it understand to that we shot/captured the footage in camera at, say, 40fps even though it comes out at 59.94? The proper frames will be flagged for 40fps???
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[kerrymcd] “Now the DOP wants to shoot frame rates of 37 or 40. Am I to understand that the frame rate converter plug-in for FCP can only slow down footage that is 59.94?”
the FRC can only convert the native DVCPROHD footage in it’s 59.94 state,
the Software FRC removes the redundant frames to re conform your 40/ 60 fps content to a native 23.98 timeline.“Will it understand to that we shot/captured the footage in camera at, say, 40fps even though it comes out at 59.94? The proper frames will be flagged for 40fps”
yes that is exactly what it does, and then running the FRC on that footage will convert it to play without render on a 23.98 timeline.
gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
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Alright, so we were able to put it through frame rate converter, but it came out quite steppy. Definitely not as fluid and smooth as 30 fps or 60 fps (which we’re quite impressed with). We’d be better off having our vfx department slow it down in post instead, which is a shame. Kind of defeats the purpose of having the varispeed feature on the camera in the first place.
Is there be a trick there to smooth it out that we are unaware of? We are editing on a 23.98 timeline.
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