[Neil Sadwelkar]

Is this a Resolve on Mac? In that case if you have FCP correctly installed, ProRes files should open normally. On the other hand if it’s a Resolve on Linux, I think that doesn’t support ProRes.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Bouke and Rafael,

I’m aware that DVD Players in most parts of the world, even PAL countries can play NTSC. But the original poster asked how to convert a 24fps source to 25 fps, since he wanted a PAL DVD.

Here in India too, all our 24fps movies get made into NTSC DVDs for worlwide sales, even in the UK. Very rarely, we get some EU customers who demand true PAL (25fps) DVDs. In that case I use the method I described. The sound team supply me the 25fps pitch corrected sound.

The tempo variation I described is a real issue as our films have songs and dances that look visibly faster in tempo.

For NTSC DVDs from 24fps, I usually simply use Compressor to convert 24 to NTSC and it does just fine. I only run into some trouble doing the timecode translation in the subtitle STL, but my friend Kiel has sorted that out, and I too have some Excel scripts to handle that conversion.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Yes it may have something to do with the component capture. I’ve encountered this too. Try recapturing with SDI.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

[Peterson Mark] “Lustre, with it’s unique log mode grading control”

Is this still unique? I thought all grading software – Resolve, Baselight, IQ, Scratch, heck, even Color – can work in ‘log mode’.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

I just visited the site. Looks quite nifty. Will it be there at NAB? Do you have demo plans for India? You can mail me offline.

neil AT sadwelkar DOT com

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

I just opened one XML I got yesterday. It has one Master Comment field that goes…

SensorFps:24.000,ShutterAngle:180.0,WhiteBalance:5600,CcShift:0,ExposureIndex:800,Gamma:LOG-C FILMMATRIX

So these Quicktimes are logC. When I import the XML into FCP I see this in the Master Comment 1 column.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

When you say “will be capable of” does that mean it cannot output 10bit now but will do so in the future?

Also, since you singled out the HDLink Pro 3D DisplayPort, does that mean that the HDLink Pro DVI is restricted to 8-bit (DVI is restricted to 8-bit?) while the HDLink Pro 3D DisplayPort version can do 10-bit because DisplayPort and HDMI can go up to 10-bit.

Or that the HDLink Pro DVI can do only 8-bit via the DVI port, but can do 10-bit if one uses the DVI port as HDMI using a DVI-HDMI cable or converter?

I ask because I have just deployed 21 HDLink Pro DVI at a TV channel, but have the choice of using them to connect to a monitor via DVI or HDMI.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

The XML file that accompanies the Quicktimes carries information on the ISO, temp, and other such data. It is human readable and if you pore over it you can find this info.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

You have to have a PAL DVD, so you need your program to be at 25 fps.

You can export your finished timeline as a QuickTime self-contained movie with audio, which will be naturally 24fps. This can be conformed to 25 fps in CinemaTools where even the audio will be adjusted for length. Or course the audio will run 4% faster and hence slightly lifted in pitch too. If there’s music it’s tempo will be 4% faster.

You can take the 24 fps audio separately to Soundtrack pro and adjust it to 4% faster without any pitch shift. But the tempo of music will be 4% fast and that’s unavoidable.

24fps movies have always been made to PAL DVDs this way.

In the NTSC world, they treat the 24fps original film source as 23.976 fps and then add 6 frames to make up 29.97 fps NTSC video with no change in audio tempo (but a minuscule 0.1% speed decrease which is not noticeable).

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

I’ve addressed your DPX question and workflow in a later post that you sent. It’s entirely do-able using Color and FCP reconnect.
I do similar things.

Meanwhile, what’s the source of the Cineform files?

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India