[Daniel Appelt]

Thank you Aaron for your suggestions! It’s actually fcp 7.0.1, but it sounds like the same problem. But putting everything in a 29.97 timeline seems to solve the problem (or at least make it so I can see the shifted in and out points so that I can correct them). Your posts were very helpful – thanks!

[Daniel Appelt]

Looks like I owe you something. When I paste it in the 29.97 timeline, it adjusts the clips so that they look the way they are being exported – so I still need to go through and fix the clips, but at least now I can fix them because I can see how they are going to come out!

Thanks very much!

[Daniel Appelt]

I got the time code numbers by opening the clips in the viewer and watching the timecode in the upper right corner while advancing it frame by frame. I figured out the frame rates of the clips by looking at their properties.

I filmed the footage with my Panasonic DVX100 and I thought the film speed was set on 24Advanced. I captured it onto fcp treating it all like it was 24 speed using advanced pull-down to remove the frames (but with a cheaper camera that doesn’t have different frame rates because the DV out on the Panasonic is fried). So if halfway through, I started recording with a normal DV framerate, that would explain why it looked like “29.97 footage that was 3:2 pulldowned to 24fps on the fly” like you said.

It seems like one solution would be to re-capture the original tapes, but then I’d have to re-edit. Any jerkiness really isn’t a problem for this project since most of it is playing sped up anyways, and jerkiness would just add to the feel that this project is going for. However, what does get in the way is how it’s changing the in and out points of edits to Footage_A when I output it (and which I wonder if that’s caused by the weird timecode). Do you think there’s any way to fix the messed up timecode without having to re=capture it? (and without having to re-edit it?)

[Daniel Appelt]

Ok, been working on this off and on all day and still far from figuring it out. Frame rates seem to be a confusing matter. But from what I’ve been reading, it sounds like fcp 7’s timeline can playback different framerates. I believe it, my project of mixed framerates plays back without a problem (it’s not until I try to export it that I see the problem).

I’ve tried exporting it as both a 29 frame rate and a 24 frame rate, but both resulted with the same error (the clip starting too late and going too long – shifted forward)

Since the 29 frame rate material outputs fine, I was trying to find a way to convert the 24 stuff to 29, hoping then it would output ok also. However, I can’t find a way to do this with my edited material. The only ways I can see would be in uploading it again or sending the original footage to a converter. But since I’ve spent some hours editing this already, it would be really nice if I could change the frame rate of some of the already edited clips. Does anyone know if this is possible?

SUMMARY: need to change frame rates of clips already in the sequence from 24 to 29

[Daniel Appelt]

Ah – I assumed all the clips were the same since they were all filmed at the same time, but, when looking it up to answer your post I came up with something interesting that looks like it definitely is at the root of the problem (but still not sure how to fix it)

I have four clips, 2 of them have a frame rate of 23.98 while two have a frame rate of 29.97. The sequence itself has a framerate of 23.98.

When I export it, the 23.98 clips are the ones that shift, while the 29.97 ones look fine. (Which seems like it should be the other way around since it’s the clips that match the sequence that aren’t working!)

Any ideas how to fix this problem? If not, any tips for what I should do to change the frame rate of half the clips to match the other ones that are working? I would like it if the final project ended up with the 23.98 framerate.

Thanks!