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Video Formats
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[Ken Morris] “Are you sure FCP doesn’t mix frame rates on the timeline? I could’ve sworn the last time I used FCP that we had mixed frame rates.”
Technically, you CAN…but only as a way to rough out your cut. Try to master the various frame rates and it will look like crap. Gotta conform to one frame rate for mastering.
I advise against multiple frame rates unless you are planning for slow motion. And in those cases, you have to test out your workflow in getting that footage into your system before you shoot tons of it and get stuck. Always know how you are going to do things in post before you shoot hours and hours of footage and are left hanging. I have seen more than one person really stung in situations like this, and post budgets soared because of it.
Shane
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Well, at this point I’m hanging. I’ve got six clips in 60fps that do not want to be friends with my 24fps project. If I start a new project, import the 60fps stuff, the export it to a 24fps quicktime, will I lose resolution. Also, will it be slow-mo?
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Test it out…see for yourself. Yes, you will lose resolution because you are recompressing the footage…but will it be too much? Up to your eyes.
Shane
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Original footage is DVCPRO HD, if I export it at 1:1 will I still lose the resolution. Also, have any other ideas regarding a work around?
Sorry OP for hijacking your post.
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Test and see. For me to answer I’d have to test and see, and it would be more worthwhile for you to see it for yourself.
Shane
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I’ll do that and post some data on it. While I’m on the board….
Dear Avid,
Please make it easier for me to import multiple frame rates. You answered my requests to streamline P2 workflow, and it worked. Kindly do the same for frame rates.
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Here’s some info on Variable Frame Rates and Avid:
From the Avid Forums (Copy/Paste, post by MichaelP). This is the console command I was talking about.
“When shooting the HVX200 for the purpose of slomo, you need to be in a 720p/24pN on the camera and in the CINE MODE. From there you select 60fps (59.94) in the menu. The camera will then record the 59.94 frames and stored them as 23.976 with a 23.976 edit rate.
Seeing as you already shot your material… create a 720p/59.94 project. Drag the files from the MediaTool into a bin. Export video as a QT reference. Import back into the 720p/23.976 project after entering
ignoreqtrate true
into the console. This will bring it in frame for frame creating a 2.5x slomo…”
I believe you’ll want to type ignoreqtrate false in the console afterwards to turn Avid’s framerate reader back on, if you have more stuff to import (that’s not VFR).
Hope this helps.
Michael
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Giving it a try right now. There are a lot of settings for QTR. Thoughts on what those should be? Also, when importing, what encoding should I use?
Man, this is way too complicated.
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Just gave it a try. Video is solid black, audio is coming through though. Blast.
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Select your clip, File–>Export. If you have a preset for Quicktime Reference choose it and check your options. I would check the “Same as Source” box for your export, 1280×720 square pixels aspect ratio.
Open your 23.976p project, go to the console and type “ignoreqtrate true” without the quotes, then choose one of the DNxHD codecs or the DVCPro HD MXF codec. Hit import.
Not sure why it’s coming in black. Did you open the Quicktime Reference in quicktime to see if the video plays there?
Michael
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