[Johnny Smith]

Unfortunately trashing preferences didn’t not solve the issue. Anything else?

[Johnny Smith]

10.6.8

[Johnny Smith]

Correction, exporting a self contained quicktime prores 422 file doesn’t solve the problem either. I thought it did but the frames are off here as well. Footage only looks right on FCP’s timeline.

In other words my big problem is this: I’m re-editing an old director’s reel by adding new footage to the reel. So some of the older clips have no handles, in other words I’m working with a 3 sec shot that I need in the final reel. It looks great in FCP but once I export it I see a frame from a preceding scene ( that I cut out but it’s showing up in the exported file ). Hope you followed all that.

[Johnny Smith]

Hey Shane,

Thanks for the reply.

The footage was H264 2997 that I converted to 2398 ProRes via compressor to match the other 2398 prores footage in the timeline. Once the edit was locked all looked great in FCP7’s timeline ( 2398 1280×720 prores footage ). Now once I send it to compressor to downconvert to H264 or ProRes LT to get it ready for Vimeo what comes out looks clean but it’s not the same edit. It’s a few frames off every time. I tried manually adding a few frames to the clips ( handles ) but somehow even that is not working. However if I just export the timeline footage as is it looks good ( but too big of a file being Pro Res 422 ). Maybe I should just try exporting the quicktime as is then manually dropping it into compressor… Thoughts?

[Johnny Smith]

Wow what happened to creative cow, there used to be traffic here 15 years ago. Guess social media killed it. Anybody here?!

[Johnny Smith]

OMG are you kidding me. Just checked the SD in another mac and in camera and none of the photos show up. Just wrapped a big photoshoot so upset right now. Somebody please tell me there’s a way to retrieve the images. What’s my best shot?

[Johnny Smith]

Nevermind you guys. I recut it by hand already using the “F” command. Thank God this was a music video and not a feature.

[Johnny Smith]

I’ve never heard of Legacy but doubt the work flow is different in a case like this anyway. It probably doesn’t matter if I’m cutting on X, Legacy or FCP7 in this situation.

[Johnny Smith]

Oh no, looks like I’m screwed : (
Just discovered this post on the subject:

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Dave LaRonde Re: Remove pulldown?
by Dave LaRonde on Dec 2, 2010 at 5:53:34 pm

It is always, Always, Always, ALWAYS best to remove 3:2 pulldown from 24p footage. The reason: you eliminate mistakes.

Yes, it’s possible to edit 24p in a 29.97 timeline. However, you stand a 2-in-5 chance of making a cut on a split frame; it’s one of those frames created when 24 frames is spread across 30 frames. If you want to split hairs, you can also refer to split frames as Progressive Segmented Frames.

The careless editor almost always does this, because he/she rarely has the editing application set up to display two fields, which would instantly reveal split frames… as long as there is motion in the shot. If there is little or no motion, it turns into a crap shoot, anyway. Thus, about 40% of your cuts will be on split frames.

If for any reason you need to create a true 23.976 (aka 23.98 in FCP-speak) file at a later date, you’re h-o-s-e-d, hosed! You have no recourse but to go back to the original footage — if it even exists — then remove the pulldown and re-edit to eliminate the inevitable gaps that will appear.

Sound like fun? Didn’t think so.

Then there are those situations where pulldown must absolutely, positively MUST be removed prior to editing:

You’re doing a film-out.
You’re creating a 23.976 file for theatrical projection.
You’re creating 23.976 video for the web.
You’re making a 24p DVD or Blu-Ray.
You’re creating motion graphics whose motion must perfectly match that of the video.

So that’s the story on pulldown removal. As you can see, when you shoot 24p and edit at 29.97 (or 1080 59.94i), you’re rolling the dice several hundred (or thousand) times, and you have to roll a 5 each and every time.

Do you feel lucky?

Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA

[Johnny Smith]

Let me rephrase it:

I cut 23.98 footage on a 29.97 timeline.
I need to export the edited footage at 23.98

What’s the right way of doing this?