Aaron Neitz
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I can’t tell you how many times clients ask me: “can we get a still from the Digibeta for our print campaign?” And then when I warm them it’s only going to be about 2×2″ at 300dpi, they always act betrayed. Therein lie the deceptive powers of the CRT.
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Well, really DPI has absolutely nothing to do at all with video. The only time DPI matters is when you’re discussing a physical recreation of pixels. Printing a 640×480 frame at 72 dpi will yield a 8.8″ x 6.6″ print…. or a 4.2″ x 3.2″ @ 150dpi. so pixels are pixels – it’s just a way to express the density of resolution you want to present them in the physical world —- it is also useful in terms of how big your monitor is and how small the pixels are; how many pixels per inch they can display
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…have you tried exporting AIFF’s files from the WAV files? Maybe there’s something going on with FCP and QT???
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Touche. 99.9%
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If you have to SLOW DOWN their mix to fit your picture, that suggest YOU’RE working at 23.98 and they’re working at 24.0
You need to triple check all your settings. Make a new 24.0 sequence and copy/paste everything into it.
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FFOA and LFOA?
Ok, if they mix is in sync on their end then the problem is between their export and your import.
Is the mix you are getting too long? try putting a 99.92% speed effect on it in FCP. that would correct for a 24fps mix to 23.98. OR do the reverse, speed the mix up to 100.08%
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Drop frame has nothing to do with video/audio speeds. Just how the computer counts and assigns frame numbers… don’t worry about that.
I’m not sure what you’re saying about ghost 2 pops….
Are the mixes in sync at the audio house? Did you give them a quicktime to mix to?
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You really should just use After Effects (or similar). FCP is such a shaky piece of software when dealing with advanced formats…. you’re setting yourself up for more problems than it’s probably worth.
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delete all your FCP prefs and restart – should take care of green
check where you are telling FCP to render. You might have permission problems on that folder, or the disk is full.
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FCP is almost 99% of time actually editing in 23.976fps, not 24
Sound people, however, are almost always at 24.
Have your sound editor coform their mix in a 29.97 fps project, and export those files to you. 29.97 and 23.98 are essentially the same as far as audio is concerned.
when you get a film print done, the Dolby technician should be made aware of the speed your audio gear is running at, and they’ll correct for the percentage on the MO disc.