[David Battistella] “If you shot 24P A mode then it is very easy to extract the frames when capturing the footage. It was designed this way. FCP can remove them on the way in on the firewire stream, if you have set up a proper capture preset.”
It’s not 24p A it’s 24p Normal and it’s broll to be inserted into interviews that that were shot on DVC Pro50 tape at 29.97. It’s not my choice to shoot the footage that way but as editors we are often given assignments that we have to do the best we can with.
[David Battistella] “Do not insult the software if you are not using it properly.”
I’ll admit I’m not a FCP fan but it’s not doing a good job with the files as imported from the cards. Apple/Panasonic’s preferred way of doing this is to transfer via the camera or the deck/card reader that we don’t have, because we shouldn’t have to. Our files are transferred to a NAS from the P2 stores and this would mean copying the files back onto the cards and bringing the camera into the bay to ingest. I just wish that there were a better way now.