Josh Weiss
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I know you posted this months ago Josh, but I have the exact same problem. I had another thread about this in the Final Cut forum, but I think it is an AE problem. Its not that my clips don’t play back right, just that the timecode doesn’t match. I did tests with 29.97 and everything is fine, its just 23.98. Premiere sees the AE render just fine, but FCP doesn’t. I posted a bug report to adobe a few times, but I know its ignored as a friend of mine got his hands on CS 5.5 and the problem is still there.
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I know you posted this months ago Josh, but I have the exact same problem. I had another thread about this in the Final Cut forum, but I think it is an AE problem. Its not that my clips don’t play back right, just that the timecode doesn’t match. I did tests with 29.97 and everything is fine, its just 23.98. Premiere sees the AE render just fine, but FCP doesn’t. I posted a bug report to adobe a few times, but I know its ignored as a friend of mine got his hands on CS 5.5 and the problem is still there.
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I agree it may not be worth your time. However, the upconverting does surprisingly help your keys. I didn’t believe it either, but someone gave me the same tip and it will HELP. Your key may still suck, but the edges will probably be better.
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Definitely do not do this in Final Cut. If you are keyframing frame by frame, the shape of your screen insert is bound to change slightly from shot to shot. What will happen is it will look jumpy and odd. If you have a huge motion blurred zoom in, you may get away with jumps between frames if the distance is far enough between the frames, but you won’t get good motion blur out of FCP.
Honestly, you should use After Effects. CS4 and on include a tool called mocha. It is a much better tracker than the point tracker in AE. You can find some tutorials on it on the Cow. Definitely use mocha, and definitely do the composite in AE. FCP is just not intended for this.
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Submitted already
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Thanks walter, I just wanted to confirm I wasn’t crazy
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Yep, just killed all prefs, tested, same issue. Its not unique to my computer though. Tried on my assistant’s machine and another editors, all have the same issue, with different media rendered out of AE.
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The interesting thing is this. Both FCP and Quicktime see the frame rate as 23.98. If you drag the clips into a blank sequence it will make it a 23.98 sequence. However both FCP and QT see the timecode as 30. Therefore, the second goes to 29 before changing over. Any thoughts?
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No, as I said, the file is rendered at 23.98, even quicktime shows it that way in the info. Only FCP sees it wrong.
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Sorry, 23.98, don’t know why I keep typing that.