Dale Mccready
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I believe there is a capture preset from Blackmagic for importing 25FPS and recognising the flagged frames. Only downside is to be dealing with uncompressed materials storage and throughput issues, but sounds like you’ve got that sorted.
Dale McCready, another DP in PAL land
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Hi. We used a few of them down here. They all ended up showing a NTSC image. I’d thought that this was partly due to the Varicam outputting at 60FPS and easy conversion to 30FPS for NTSC. Wasn’t a problem really. All our gear it turned out was multiformat from Steadicam senders to additional SD monitors.
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Ah yeah, found it. Setting to 59.97 will make 29.97 Frame rates even if the frame rate setting is at 30FPS.
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If you have a good monitor you can adjust the Varicam shutter to find the flicker free “windows” just observe your shot and dial the flicker out. Unlike a film camera you will ssee it disappear. I recently shot a clip at 18FPS and we were able to adjust the shutter to 131.0 degrees. Also I believe there is an adjustment for drop frame code or non drop frame in the VTR main menu. Hold down menu for a few seconds then navigate to page 6.
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On our recent shoot in New Zealand we used my Ultra Steadicam with the Varicam and Arri Primes. With that and a lightweight mattebox, no filters, and AJA downconverter (necessary so even the operator can see), the Steadicam was fairly hefty. The camera alone isn’t too heavy, but with those lenses and support gear it gets up there. As an experienced Steadicam owner/operator I can tell you that it becomes comparable to most film cameras and that a lightweight rig would be having some trouble. Best tested to be sure.
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Ah, thank you. That makes sense for it to be in there. I’m going to do more music videos with the Varicam and that should make it all work as long as my soundtrack is conformed to 24FPS before shooting.
Then conform back to 25FPS in CT and resync the original 25FPS track. Great. -
Just had a read through of the latest Blackmagic Decklink setups. There is now a 25FPS Varicam Easy setup. Apparently this recognises the flagged frames. But it might be worth looking into for easier 25FPS editing despite the cost. RAID’s and a simpler HD card aren’t too pricey these days. BUt it’s hard to know when firewire support for 25FPS will come out. Could be the day after buying a card, but then they are useful even just to downconvert to 10bit PAL live from DVCproHD with the new drivers.
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Unfortuanately under the tools menu is a plugin to help process the file into 24FPS from 25 and not the other way around. This was what I used in my initial conversion.
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HI,
You’ll have no choice but to work in a 23.98 timeline I’m afraid. There isn’t any support for 25FPS as yet. I have just finished a music video using the firewire ingest and had no issues other than how to easily get the file back to 25FPS again. I couldn’t find an easy option but the best seemd to be outputting as a 23.98 image sequence and then importing as a 25FPS image sequence in After Effects. I’m not entirely up with every nook and cranny of FCP but had trouble getting it to output at 25FPS from 24.
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thanks for your help
Dale