[Bill747]

I received this from another blog and it works, except each clip is off by 1-2 seconds:

Well.. two mistakes in row here, but… this may help just a bit.

Take your 23.98 timeline and export an .EDL of it. Make sure you don’t have tracks all over the place, one video track.

OPEN CINEMA TOOLS and choose, EXPORT/CONVERTED EDL/30fps from 24fps/ the choose the .edl you just opened. Give it a new name like 30 and add the extension, .edl to the name …so 30.edl

IMPORT IN FCP then reconect to the 29.97 footage. Again, this isn’t the way this is supposed to work exactly. You used fcp to remove an advanced pulldown that didn’t exist creating jerky images, then you wanted the timecodes to sync up to 29.97 when… they don’t. There are less numbers in 24fps then 29.97 and those numbers get progressively farther apart the closer to the end of the tape the footage is from. About 4 seconds difference total.

Anyway, you will still probably need to push each edit a frame or so, but you may be back in the ballpark.

[Bill747]

Thx for the help! Seems to have worked…although like you said, the clips are about 1-2 seconds ahead of where they need to be. Is there any way to move a set of clips back w/out disturbing my cut points? Either way, this will save hours.