[Eli Mavros]

I have done digital cinema desktop before on other computers, but for some reason on my computer the option is grayed out. I also have an older 23″ Cinema HD display. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Eli

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[Eli Mavros]

I am positive that this footage is 24pA, but I know what a nightmare it can be if the camera person is not carefull. My company was doing some short promos that were shot with several different panasonic 24p cameras, and not all of the camera operators were using the same setting (nor did they make camera reports as to which setting they did use)…it was a real nighmare.

Anyhow, Guy you might be right what you say…but the article was only posted in December, and that 24 Advanced capture setting has been around for much longer than that. I don’t see why anybody would make their own setting when that exists in the Easy Setup…You might me right, but I don’t think that I buy it, I think that that article is talking about this very setting. It makes sense to me…so I am going to stick with the method that it suggests, but what I want to know is if once I do capture do I have to reverse the pulldown one clip at a time or can I batch them?

Thanks,
Eli

[Eli Mavros]

I included a link in my first post (which like 10 people told me to look at when I posted a 24pA question earlier this week), if you read the link, it warns you against using that capture preset.

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[Eli Mavros]

Right, I know that there is not manual option to guess the pattern like you can with a 3:2 in AE, but I am pretty sure that you can choose to remove the 2:3:3:2 for individual clips rather than for the whole project…I am just hoping the FCP is analyzing each clip before it removes the pattern, rather than pulling frames out just based on the pattern of the first clip…because if you log and capture clips individually (which takes more time…but seems to at least make more sense to me when it comes to the onlining stage), then each clip is going to start on a different frame in the pattern, and if FCP only looks at the first clip in a batch and says “hey this is the pattern, I’ll take it out this way for everything” then I will run into problems…but I hope that you are right in that it is some information that is imbedded in the DV stream and tells FCP what’s what. It would make sense, since you don’t use cinema tools or seem to have many options when it comes to removing the 2:3:3:2.

Thanks.
Eli

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[Eli Mavros]

I wouldn’t have such a problem with it if they were not giving a discount to FCE users…it is practically the same situation…these people bought the software and learned it all at a cheap price, and they get a discount on the upgrade…what about the poor sap who bought FCP last semester? Plus, I don’t buy that you are not supposed to use the educational version once you have graduated (first off, who would actually follow that policy…until say, an upgrade that was not available to them came about). Secondly, it is not like apple expects that you buy a new computer once you graduate, because you bought yours while you were a student.

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[Eli Mavros]

I wouldn’t have such a problem with it if they were not giving a discount to FCE users…it is practically the same situation…these people bought the software and learned it all at a cheap price, and they get a discount on the upgrade…what about the poor sap who bought FCP last semester?

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[Eli Mavros]

I have made money using FCP, but that is at my job, where I am using their FCP and their license. Since I am still very new to the working world, I do a lot of pro bono editing at home…but that is besides the point; I have no problem paying big leauge prices now that I am out of school, and I would gladly pay the full upgrade price (I am not looking for another educational discount), but I think it is not fair that I did buy my educational version with no indication that I would not be able to upgrade it to the full version. Hell, if they want to charge me even more to upgrade, then fine…but to make me buy the whole program all over just doesn’t seem right, especially since FC Express costs less than what I payed for my educational version and they are offering FCE people an upgrade, it may be more than the regular upgrade, but it isn’t a full grand.

Just venting…

[Eli Mavros]

I just backtracked my steps from Saturday and did find, hidden deeply in the website, the page that I had seen about not being able to upgrade from an educational version. This does not seem right, seeing that they are letting people upgrade from Final Cut Express…which I think is even cheaper than what I paid for and Educational FCP when I was in school. I am befuddled, because there are so many different upgrade links on the main site, and then this one page is the only one that makes mention of it.

[Eli Mavros]

You guys are great; thank you for your advice. I have already started making some assemblies of the footage…if I now make my clips offline, recapture at 29.97, and then perform the pulldown removal, will I have troubles relinking my sequences? I don’t care if they are off by a few frames, because they are only assemblies…but I just don’t want to run into problems like fcp bugging out because the split frames are not in the same places as they were before, etc…

If I perform the pulldown removal and then edit in 24fps, will I not be able to recapture the clips for onlining with a kona card? Are the flags that the DVX100 puts in the 24pa footage only caried over firewire? I guess it really will not be a huge deal if I don’t recapture 10bit, because the film really isn’t going to have a lot of effects or graphics. Could I possibly take my final sequence, throw it into a 10bit seq at the end, do my titles and color correction, export it and then bring it into say After Effects and insert the pulldown? Would that work for me?

Thanks,
Eli

[Eli Mavros]

Thanks again…sorry to keep bogging you down with questions, but I posted yesterday “Yet another 24p question”…which is actually several questions (one of which you have now answered)…if you have the time I would really appreciate some answers to those other questions. One of the reply posts actually said that I should talk to you.

Thanks a lot.