Jeff Kirkland
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PAL SD is 25 frames per second but HD can be shot 24, 25 or 50 although usually shot at 25/50 and delivered at 25. I wouldn’t expect there’d be any difference between PAL 24p and NTSC 24p on the 5D.
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Hi Bill,
Just trying to get my head around your post because it’s something I hadn’t considered before. Are you saying that on export, FCPX always uses the original media rather than the optimised? How does that relate to my ability to set FCPX to background render a project in other flavours of ProRes or even uncompressed?
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Just idle curiosity but I’m wondering if you tried deleting your render files when you had the error? My first thought was that you had a corrupt render file and the fix you describe would certainly have forced FCPX to regenerate the render files for everywhere that clip occurred…
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If you let FCPX do the conform then it’s just a matter of setting the clip back to 100% speed and it will play at the normal rate.
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Thanks Oliver – I guess that’s why I was asking… I had assumed that the FCPX option was performing the same function as CT – changing the metadata – just virtually in the database rather than ‘physically’ in the file.
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Unless I’ve missed something that makes it less effective than other methods, choosing the clip then going to the menu and selecting ‘modify>retime>conform speed’ will conform the clip to whatever fps it was shot at.
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You can do slow motion on the 24fps clips but you’ll be faking it, essentially making up frames that aren’t really there. Which is fine for some shots and looks awful on others.
If you shoot at 60fps and put it on a 24fps timeline, you are essentially playing 24 of those 60 frames in a way that keeps the clip playing back at normal speed. When you conform the clip, you tell FCPX to play all 60 frames which means it has to play back in slow motion.
And it will look much better because they’d real frames, not fake ones.
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For me it’s an easy choice – I pretty much always want the film look, and so do my clients. There’s one or two exceptions but not many these days. At the end of the day with the Hero3 you don’t have that much control so you take what you cam get 🙂
If you think you want slow motion but haven’t been able to do enough pre-production/storyboarding to know exactly which shots, I’d shoot it all 60fps or faster and cut it on a 24p timeline. You can conform the 60pp footage after the fact and you’ll always get a better result than using FCPX’s retiming tool/optical flow/whatever on 24p footage.
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Unless of course you’re just up for a challenge or specifically want that GoPro look 🙂
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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