[Jeff]

It does make sense that Compressor is having a tough time with the HD footage.

Downconverting in FinalCut is a good idea, but just taking the time (and disk space) to render the new SD sequence makes it less than ideal too. Looks like we’re going to get around this problem with either a real time DVD recorder deck or old fashioned VHS’s for client review. Anything else takes away too much editing time.

Thanks much for the response.

Jeff

[Jeff]

This is correct as well, but the question is different:

Compressor is 720p60
Footage is 23.98

All is well there.

But:

media captured via firewire shows a TC Rate of 60 (video rate is 23.98fps) while media captured with Kona shows a TC Rate of 30. The same clip captured by two different cards will then display different time code.

My question is why two different TC Rates for identical clips, since this would cause big problems later?

[Jeff]

The video rate of all clips is 23.98 and was captured at 23.98, but it’s the TC Rate that reads 60. So the speed of the clips is consistent, but just the counting of the frames in FCP is off.