[Dan Chapman]

Hi Ann.

Can you copy clips from a timeline in one project to a timeline of another without closing the project and reopening the destination project?

Dan

[Dan Chapman]

Thanks Richard! Is that the Photoshop for Video podcast?

Dan

[Dan Chapman]

Hi Gary,

I tried your suggestion, but it didn’t work. First of all there is no PDF export in Illustrator CS3. So I save as PDF, but can’t find with transparency setting. There is no “place” in FCP. So I Import the PDF. And it’s raster.

help.

Dan

[Dan Chapman]

My Preset Editor is set to FireWire NTSC, Frame Rate:: 29.97, Default Timecode: Drop Frame.

I’ll try changing that next capture. But now this confuses me, a common state for me lately.

I thought that if you have 24P-or PA, it’s read at 29.97. The timeline should be set to 23.97 NDF.
But the Capture Presets (Audio/Video Settings) should be set to 29.98. That’s why I assume the Device Control Presets would be set to 29.98 as well. Maybe the Device Control Presets should be 29.98 NDF.

I had an extensive correspondence with Noah Kadner and Larry Jordan on this subject.

Here’s a quote from Noah (sorry for the long length):

DVX100 24pA footage should always be captured at 29.97 because that’s what’s on the tape. When a user wants to cut at 23.98 they need to properly remove the 2:3:3:2 pulldown introduced by the DVX100 during filming. The DVX100 flags these extra frames and embeds these flags into the Firewire data stream. FCP can read these flags back during ingest and conform the 29.97 pulldown footage back to the 23.98 captured by the camera. That is what the Remove Advance Pulldown from 2:3:3:2 sources checkbox in the capture settings is for. But in order to do this properly, the FPS setting in FCP must be set at 29.97 to give FCP the full firewire data stream and allow it to properly recognize the flags and remove the Advance pulldown frames.
If you set the capture FPS at 23.98, FCP will randomly delete frames to get from 29.97 to 23.98 but they will not be the correct frames. You’ll wind up with a 23.98 file that looks odd during playback from FCP because the 2:3:3:2 interlaced pulldown frames are still there along with randomly missing progressive frames. This has become the number one issue plaguing FCP users with DVX100 footage who want to cut at 23.98 and has resulted in a lot of confusion. I’ve hoped to lobby Apple on this issue so that they might include a warning pop-up in FCP giving notice that 23.98 FPS capture will result in improperly digitized DVX100 footage but haven’t made any headway and Panasonic hasn’t been able to either- maybe you can help with that.
I know it seems counterintuitive that one would use 29.97 as the capture frame rate in order to ingest 23.98 footage but that’s how it must be done because of the way the format is recorded to tape. And FYI- there are very few tape formats that run at 23.98 natively so it would be not be a proper FPS setting for most “24p” formats. The only ones I know of that actually can record to tape at 23.98 without introducing a pulldown are D5 and Sony HDCAM and HDCAM-SR.
-Noah

Dan

[Dan Chapman]

Unfortunately that doesn’t work. I tried that early on. I still get the message now and it’s unchecked. The way I’ve been avoiding the message is to FF or RW very close to the area of the tape I’m about to capture, pause, then start batch capture. Some how this works. I would love an easier way if someone can offer one. Thanks.

Dan

[Dan Chapman]

Both 24PA and 24P are always non drop-frame.

Dan

[Dan Chapman]

[Dave LaRonde] “The only sure-fire way to capture and remove pulldown from those tiny little pea-shooter DV tapes shot at 24pa is this:
* Capture INDIVIDUAL SHOTS only.
* Make sure the in & out time codes of the clips are within the individual shots. Obviously, you need sufficient rolloff at the head & tail of the shot to do this.”

Hi Dave,

I think I started capturing too close to the beginning of my tape. Can I correct this now that I’ve captured, by setting new in and out points, then media managing? That way the offending heads and tails will be cut. But will I be able to remove pull down after this? I’ll try it.

Or should I just re-capture again leving more space in the beginning and end?

Dan

[Dan Chapman]

I just captured a continuous tape the same way as Jeff and got the same result. Actually two tapes of concert footage we’re trying to make into a DVD. One of the tapes had a camera stop in the middle, but the second one was fully continuous. We want to use 90% of the material, so capturing the whole tape was the way to go.

Now what do I do? I get that same message (!!! Break in Advanced Pulldown cadence (pattern) found near t.) I shot on a DVX100 with 24PA.

What’s “t”?

FCP 5.1.4
OSX 10.4.11
Quicktime 7.5.5

Dan