[Graham Trott]

Neil

Thanks again – yes, at least the drum clips are short in duration – in most cases, a few frames, or less than a second, so I’m sure it won’t look too bad at all. It will become more of a pain to find the right bit as I move along the timeline where the shift is greater. Oh well, live and learn…..

[Graham Trott]

Thanks Neil – that makes a lot of sense.

Here’s the thing – the 24fps footage is of the drummer in the band I have filmed. I’ve layered video tracks in FCP, synched up with the live audio that was recorded separately. I’ve chopped down through the video layers to reveal the drums wherever I need to see them. So, once I’ve conformed the footage to 25fps in Cinema Tools, and then reconnected the media, I will have footage that over a clip length of five minutes, will have increased by some 10 seconds or so. Which will obviously knock everything out of wack.

I guess I know the answer to the question, but I guess that means re-editing/positioning the drum track on the whole programme? Ouch!

It has been suggested that in Compressor, you can change the frame rate but keep the length of the clip the same. However, when I tried that, the new clip would not play – settings problem maybe?

The simplest way is obviously Cinema Tools, as it’s more or less instant, but the clip length is changed.

What to do?

Yes – I know – I’m a muppet for not doing it in the first place before starting the edit, but surely, the drum clip would not have synched anyway with the soundtrack, having been stretched to 25fps?

Graham

[Graham Trott]

Thanks Jessica – interesting. Would there be a shift in the running time overall, or will my sound remain synched after output to 24fps?

I’m getting a thin green line at the bottom of the screen on playback where some of the drum footage is used – but not all of it! I think I’ve seen a thread on this issue, so didn’t flag it up on this post, but mention it in passing….

[Graham Trott]

I’ve just edited a music promo, stacking about 17 song run-through clips in FCP. Drum takes at the bottom (v1 etc) working my way up through bass, guitars and putting vocals on the top tracks. Once each track was synched with the audio track, it was just a case of chopping down through to whatever I wanted to see at a given point in the song. As mentioned already, the narrative stuff and bits and pieces can be dropped on wherever required.

This worked very well until it was time to grade. Adding magic bullet mojo to everything just made the whole thing grind to a halt and the project would not export to Compressor for outputting. In the end, I went along the timeline deleting any track portion that was not visible, then re-rendered. This has eased things up and the film is currently outputting.

I like the idea of keeping a master copy of all complete tracks on the timeline – something I have not done, but will on the next one. I haven’t tried ‘multiclip’, but plan to look at it now. The stacking method does seem to work though, and like someone said, you can cheat a bit and pull some shots out of synch where you don’t see what is being played – I’ve done that with the odd guitarist shot for a better expression.

Good luck!

Graham