[Chris Kelly]

go to a post house and convert over 50 hours of footage that i will probably use about 1% of?

i think ill just batch convert everything in compressor and then pay for the hardware conversion at the online.

as this doc will be internationally distributed we will need the best quality possible so no matter what we do at this stage we will have to re do it at the online unfortunately.

[Chris Kelly]

Hi Dave,

the delivery format was never in question, it was always going to be 25p. So i could do a software conversion for now (to get accurate sequence timecode) and then re-convert the original files (and upscale them) on hardware in the online suite.

thanks,

Chris

[Chris Kelly]

Hi Craig,

yes a bit of a nightmare really, yes final output is 1080p. converting everything isnt an option, i have too much footage for that, and ill only use about about 1% of it in the final cut

I dont have an SDI monitor or output board so I wont know what way the fields will go until i get to the online suite, where the online editor can deal with dodgy fields and duplicate frames, (ill have the original source files with me anyway) what i was asking was is there a way to convert the 29.97/30fps video to 25fps? i could then manually sync that video with my 25fps audio source using the ramped audio as a guide track.
what is standard procedure for putting ntsc footage into a pal progressive timeline? bearing in mind it has to pass tech review for broadcasters (pal and ntsc)

thanks,

Chris