Graeme Nattress
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You may be able to hear the audio difference. If you do you can re-pitch the audio (not re-time, just re-pitch) which should be doable in decent audio editing software, or you can put the whole project back to 24p at the end.
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Audio must be also sped up to retain sync. If you’re using cinema tools, it will also speed up the associated audio with the video. If not, you’ll need to speed up the audio separately.
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Canon 5D2 is progressive 30p and that doesn’t convert very well to anything else. Your best bet is probably compressor, but don’t be too disappointed if it doesn’t come out totally best.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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So when you drop the NTSC clip into the PAL timline, it could look gnarly. That clip is only holding a place for the converter though. Ensure your timeline is PAL – FCP will change it for you under the guise of optimizing the timeline for the clip, so say no to it, if it asks.
In the converter, check your field orders are correct.
Any problems beyond that, email me, and perhaps arrange to send me a small clip to look at and I can determine best settings for you.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Starting with PAL is advantageous as no pulldown to remove, and slightly higher resolution. If you convert it to 24p by slowing it down 4% (use Cinema Tools “conform”) Image looks great. You can make a 24p DVD. If you need to keep the speed constant, my Conversion plug will do 25p to 60i, which looks nice too.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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The banding in such cases is usually a display artifact from how FCP displays 10bit data on an 8bit monitor.
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Mine should be ok for 10bit. However, the adaptive ones I have in Color are quite nice indeed and with the ColorFX room you can do all kinds of clever stuff too.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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I don’t do 24p to 25p though – that’s a job best done in Cinema Tools with the “conform” option to speed it up 4%. Compressor “should” be able to do it good, if you can ever figure out the right settings 🙂 Which I can never seem to do….
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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I wonder if iDVD guessed the field order wrong or something. That would account for jerking. I’ve certainly seen DVD programs guess it wrong.
For the 60i to 24p, with horizontals, sounds like an incorrect setting on the smart de-interlace. That’d be my best guess.
If you want a 24p into iDVD then yes, you must make it back to 29.97fps, but that’s done by adding 3:2 pulldown, which FCP won’t do if you put 24p on a 60i timeline. My plugins will, but at that point, you’ll get exactly the same effect as if you’d use Film Effects.
Drop me an email and I can give you a call later today,
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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If you have plugin issues, you should also email me direct. I try to read ALL the forums, but….
It really sounds like you’re mixing things up. If you’re using Film Effects, stay on a 29.97fps timeline. If you’re using Standards Converter, go with the 23.98fps timeline, but as far as I know, iDVD doesn’t do 24p DVDs properly. Even with DVDSP, you should use compressor for making the MPEGs from the 24p converted material.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP