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Fatkid
August 20, 2006 at 2:42 am in reply to: 59.94 to 23.98—help needed.

It is for DVD and TV. No one should care, you are correct. We’re covered all around I think.
Thanks

FATKID
Fatkid
August 19, 2006 at 8:18 pm in reply to: 59.94 to 23.98—help needed.

Mike

Thanks for your time on this. Next time we offline in 23.98…keep it all the way.
I agree. If we need to go to film we will need to re-color correct anyway. We can conform list to 23.98 and recapture. It only took 2 days to
batch in. But I think we are in a good place right now. Better keep moving.

Thanks for letting us bounce this around with you. I hope others will learn from our mistakes…

FATKID
Fatkid
August 19, 2006 at 7:21 pm in reply to: 59.94 to 23.98—help needed.

Mike

Thanks for the resonse. Yes the producers do share in problem…(we probably shouldn’t have mentioned that…it’s a waste of time to discuss)

As for the project:

Shot on Varicam at 23.98. Was captured and edited (offline) at 29.97 DV NTSC interlaced. Media managed at 59.94 to offline clips. Recaptured at 720p 59.94 and the time line adjusted to 59.94. Of course there are some clips that are off by 1 frame in the edit. The audio was OMF’d at 29.97 and is currently being cleaned up at that rate. We eventually wanted to go to HDCAM at 24p. But when we throw the timeline (59.94) into a 23.98 timeline, some of the clips become stuttered (it seems the cadence is off due to the cut). We could recapture back at 23.98 and continue, but our eventual delivery is DVD (NTSC) and HDCAM 60i/Digibeta (NTSC) for televison. Our second delivery is HDCAM 50i (PAL)/Digibeta (PAL).

The big question is it even worth it to go 23.98 if we don’t have to. Just keep it at 59.94 (that is working in FCP). We will not being doing PAL in FCP. We can take that to a dub house after we master and color on HDCAM 60i. ( we are going DIVINCI for color). We were told to take our 1200a and capture back the 59.94 project back to DVCPRO HD, then the color house will dub that to HDCAM 60i….color correct.

I guess I might be answering my own question here…but any other insight would be great. I know about Natress….but we won’t be doing anything in FCP other than taking back the color corrected version and compressing for DVD.

Thanks for you time

FATKID
Fatkid
August 19, 2006 at 6:52 pm in reply to: 59.94 to 23.98 VARICAM + 1200a + FCP + HDCAM=NIGHTMARE

John

We own the 1200a. But thanks for the insight. Does anyone have an actual answer on this.

FATKID