[Monica Nolan]

Yes, I thought about that. I’m concerned that it will affect sync, given that it’s a multicam shoot and I was hoping to use the FCP multicam tool.

[Monica Nolan]

Thanks Joel–I did a test conversion using compressor and it looks okay, except if I step through it frame by frame, and then some of the frames seem a little pixilated (in the foreground mostly, probably where the focus is softer).

I had a recommendation to use After Effects for removing pulldown and converting to 24p…any thoughts on that? My AE is pretty old, 5.5, so I’m not even sure it will support that.

[Monica Nolan]

Gotcha. Thanks.

[Monica Nolan]

I’m using After Effects 5.5 on OSX and Quicktime 6.5.

I isolated it to the audio layer after I posted, and finally figured that If I didn’t have the waveform showing, zooming the timeline would work fine. Setting the audio to low quality lets me zoom and look at the waveform (for at least a quick test), thanks!

Not sure what you meant by needing to update AE and quicktime after making the switches change…

[Monica Nolan]

Thanks for your recommendations–it’s nice to have consensus!

[Monica Nolan]

I copied the media I needed to my own, less heavily used, lacie drive and have had no problems. Putting an internal media drive on my shopping list…

Thanks.

[Monica Nolan]

Firewire drives not approved by Apple? This is news to me.

I’m beginning to suspect the drive is the source of the problem. No SATA drives here, but I’m going to try moving the media for the small chunk I’m working on either to my hard drive or my own lacie drive (which hasn’t been kicked around quite so much as my co-editor’s). We’ll see what happens.

Thanks for your input.