Lars Wikstrom
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Haha, your right it was that simple. The problem that I have know is that the whole image won’t project. I can only see about 20% of the image. How can I adjust that?
Thanks!
-Lars
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It will not to my understanding retain that information about the clip. IT sounds like when you are trying to do this in FCP it is not giving you what you need frame rate waise and so on. Taking it into another program will cause it to lose it’s in for but will import fine into FCP.
720 60p is awsome for doing 30i down convertions.
If you are wanting to do something batched you might want to also look into Automatic Duck. This allows you to open up the FCP timeline in AE, or export the timeline layers and all. This might be your ticket.
-Lars
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Try to do you convertions in After Effects. When I shot in 60p and then use AE to convert to a SD 29.97 interlaced and re import into FCP to output. Sounds like you just need to do the convertion so you can keep editing.
-Lars
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sweet.
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sweet.
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I read a section in my friends book this morning with regards to AE. It says that AE is not a frame-based program but a time based program.
So if you turned on Frame blending you would see the extra footage that was not obviously being used but still accessible to AE.
It is a cool program : )
-Lars
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I hope the 8’s don’t go away. When I bought the camera package I spent all my money and only got the 4 gig because it was $650. I want to get another card and I don’t mind the 4’s because one card fits well on a DVD-R. If they do get rid of the 4’s I hope the 8’s take over the 4’s price at $650. To only have the 16’s as the low end card for $1300 would suck. They need to have a card at half that price.
I have a few friends in my same postion where they could afford the one time splurge on the camera and a 4 gig card. But buying more cards is hard. So I hope they still have the 4 gig price on cards no matter what the lowest is.
-Lars
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I hear you. You would think that it would skip because that would be logical. But AE is smart. It sees the 30 timeline and the 60p footage. If you didn’t select fields then I am guessing it would do the skipping like you mentioned.
Another example of this smartness is if you take 30i footage and slow it down 50%. It is smart enough to see the fields so frame 1 would be lower field interpolated and frame 2 is upper field interpolated and so on.
-Lars
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This is why I use AE for my 60p to 60i converstion.
Just bring your 60p footage into AE adn drop it into a 29.97 timeline. Then select lower feild first in the render dialog. AE is smart enough to see that there is more footage then it needs and turns the 60p footage into 60i.
-Lars
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I shoot much of my stuff at 60p I do my down converstion in After Effects. If you create a normal comp in AE that is 29.97 SD then drag in your HD 60p footage into it and scale it down to fit the window. The just create movie and select your normal NTSC and select your interlacing Lower or Upper first (More then likely Lower feild first.)
AE is smart enough to turn you 60p into interlaced 30i.
-Lars