[Brandon Wasserburger]

Last post on this subject. But I finished after about 2 hours of copying and pasting for a 22:30;00 show.
If you worry about the footage first, copying and pasting each piece one at a time, THEN worry about the music second you’ll be doing great. Because you can select ALL the music and copy and paste it all at once. Music isn’t bound by 24 frames or 29.97 Frames. Music doesn’t care, so it’s a straight copy and paste job.

– Brandon

[Brandon Wasserburger]

I will add a couple more things…

Like one of the guys said above, you’ve got to remember that you are switching from a 24 to 30 project. So even by doing the cut and paste each clip one at a time method, you’ve to to know that it’s going to be one or two frames off sometimes. But that’s better than 5 seconds off or your in and out points are the same etc etc.

What I did was configure my screen layout so I can look at both timelines at the same time. I then cut and paste ONE element at a time. If the clip is linked to audio, I copy and paste those together, also I do music very last so I can focus on one aspect of the edit at a time. I’m about 20 minutes into this process right now as I’m writing this and it seems to be working good without much exception. The key is to do it one at a time and don’t copy and paste groups of material at at a time because I think it’s too much math for FCP to handle on it’s clipboard when you do more than one clip or one piece of video.

Best of luck to you reading this if you’re in this mess. I hope this method I’ve described helps you and keeps you from having to switch programs or platforms.

Sincerely,

Brandon

[Brandon Wasserburger]

Guys, I totally feel your pain. My company does contract post for a larger broadcast production company. They specifically say, “Do NOT start a project in 24P because we need to broadcast in 29.97 and it’s a pain in the butt to switch backwards!” Well, I did just that, I made the bone headed mistake of not checking first before editing. I finished my episode and bam, it’s in 24 and I can’t ship it that way. I read your posts and liked what I saw, but I don’t have FCP 6, I jumped to straight into 7 from a long gone educational license of 6.

BUT! If anyone ever has this problem and comes across this forum, I’ve got solution. It’s not pretty, but it’ll get you there without having to go back to FCP 6 or switching to Avid (cool but not an option when you’re not rolling in the dough and your clients work in FCP 7).

If you copy and paste each clip individually from your 24P timeline into a 29.97 timeline, it will enter the sequence in sync just as you cut it. The only thing that’s a little whacky is speed ramps (depending on how you do them), those you may have to rebuild. But if you copy each element and paste it, FCP remembers what video track it originated in and it will paste accordingly into that video track. It’s a little bit slow of a process at first, BUT you’ll get two things accomplished:

1) You’ll learn to never start a project with the wrong sequence settings again. Which we should all be aware of anyway as editors before starting a project. haha but mistakes do happen 😀

2) You’ll get your project “reconstructed” without throwing everything out of sync.

Sincerely,

Brandon Wasserburger
Senior Editor
Fire Tribe Productions, inc.
firetribeproductions.com