Carlos Braun
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Thanks Shane. Actually the problem seems to be of a different nature. My FCP is not rendering anything, so it wasn’t really a problem with the video files. I cannot render audio transations, the same message (File Error: Unknown file) shows up.
Carlos
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Hey Jeremy,
I am the director of the film in question… thanks for helping us, Caroline my editor and myself… we´ve been talking to a bunch of people and I personally, who am a little Fred Flinstone when it comes to these tech specs, have the feeling that there is a bunch of crossed information. Basically we had two problems: 1, identifying if the images were recorded in 24 or 24A (which I guess mean 24p and 24pA). Then, the issue would be how to preset the Project/timeline/etc… on the FCP to edit this material. I spent a couple of hours today with a technician in a finishing house analyzing the material, and these were his conclusions:
When we preset everything @ 24fps in FCP and dragged the captured clip into the timeline, a warning appeared asking us to check if the presets were in accordance with the recorded material and asking if we wanted to change that. When we said yes, the clip in the timeline ran @ 30fps. When we said no, it ran @ 24fps… Analyzing the clip frame by frame, apparently there was no problem with saying no and having it @ 24fps but this guy told me that every four or five frames there was a frame that had less quality, and he thought that was because FCP was dowing the full down or down convert or whatever from the 30fps to the 24fps… When we recaptured it with the presets @ 30fps, and dragged the clip, no warning appeared and the clip played fine at 30fps (with interlacing every 5 frames)… his diagnosis was that this project was shot at 24pA, therefore the camera captured at 24fps but recorded @ 30fps (which for me didnt make much sense) so he told me to just go ahead and edit with the presets at 30fps and that eventually, down the line, in post, before the 35mm transfer, I´d have to do something in a finishing house to remove these extra frames and get pure 24frames for 35mm transfer… It all sounds very confusing to me, especially since no one here seems to give me a 100% firm answer… People who have the Sony HDV V1 have experienced similar problems.. I appreciate all help…Carlos