[Nicholas Natteau]

Hi everyone and thanks.

Thanks Brian. Yes, actually I’ve been using those in Motion but it seems that if I need to increase their size, it affects their speed. In Motion, if I increase the ink brush stroke to say 100, the speed becomes choppy. It becomes msooth again if I reduce the size of the stroke.

[Nicholas Natteau]

Hi Jeremy,

Thank you so much for helping me with this complex issue. It worked!

Just one follow up question: If offlining my 480i29.97 sequences via Media Manager and recapturing my clips at 720p59.94 allows me to keep everything in place in resulting 720p29.97 sequences where nothing gets moved, will this cause any problems for final delivery?

Shane had stated in an earlier reply (in this thread) that “there is no deliverable at 720p29.97”.
If that’s the case, do I then need to copy and paste my finished 720p29.97 timelines into a 720p59.94 nested master sequence for final delivery?

I’m also asking this because I’m wondering if I shouldn’t actually take the long hard road of manually moving all my clips in 720p60 timelines since I will be adding a lot of natively shot 720p60 footage.

[Nicholas Natteau]

They’re mini-DV tapes that were sent to me from a stock footage company, I believe they’re drop frame.

[Nicholas Natteau]

Ok I see what you mean. I do now in fact have a 720p29.97 timeline even though the clips are 59.94 but I also get this message when I try importing my other 480i clips:

WARNING: You are about to capture drop frame media from a device currently detecting or configured for non-drop frame media. If you proceeed you may experience changes in logged-in and out points, problems relinking media, or removal of master clip relationships.

That message worries. The last thing I would want to do is end up with clips that have different in and out points. I don’t understand because I have a Sony M35U HDV VTR tape deck but all my footage is NTSC-DV, nothing HDV. I checked all my Sony settings, I don’t remember telling the M35U tape deck to be configured for non-drop frame media.

[Nicholas Natteau]

Hi Jeremy,

I’m attempting to do it your way right now but I’m getting this message:

FRAME RATE CONFLICT FOUND:
The frame rate of the preset chosen to resert your new offline sequences to differs from items in your selection. The preset’s frame rate will br ignored, and the original frame rate of the items in your selection retained.

Is this normal or something I should be worried about?

[Nicholas Natteau]

Hi Jeremy,

I’m attempting to do it your way right now but I’m getting this message:

[Nicholas Natteau]

Hi Jeremy,

Yes, I tried it: I offlined my 480i29.97 clips and recaptured them at 720p59.94 but not through the Media Manager.

I simply went into my Browser window and group selected my 480i clips, selected “Make Offline” and then clicked “Batch Capture” with “Kona LHi Apple Pro Res 720p59.94”. So I now I have them all recaptured at 720p59.94

The problem is when it comes to the timeline. If I drop them into a blank timeline, then the blank timeline conforms to the clips, and aquires an fps of 59.94. But if I start replacing all my 480i29.97 clips from my 480i29.97 timeline with their 720p59.94 upconverted identicals, that’s when everything shows up in the wrong place.

I’m starting to think that there’s no quick solution to this. That I probably need to have both timelines open simultaneously: my 480i29.97 original sequence and my new 720p.59.94 sequence and then simply drop all my 720p clips in the same order in the new timeline as their original 480i versions were in the 480i timeline.

[Nicholas Natteau]

Hi Jeremy,

Regarding the article you pointed me to, I tried that approach but my problem is that my upconverted footage has a different frame rate (720p59.94) to the original 480i29.97.

The article refers to offlining NTSC footage and recapturing at a higher resolution but not at a different frame rate. That is my major problem: ending up with a timeline where everything has to be moved around because all the upconverted clips have a frame rate double that of the original clips.

FCP Pro Video told me to offline all my clips and recapture at 720p59.94 but NOT use the media manager to do this due to the frame rate change. Do you still feel that Media Manager is the way to go?

Have you used the Media Manager when you had to offline and recapture at twice the frame rate?

[Nicholas Natteau]

Hi Jeremy,

Do you mean start with a blank 720p59.94 timeline and then just paste in the 480i29.97 clips from the previous 480i29.97 timeline? Can you clarify? Thank you in advance.

[Nicholas Natteau]

Hi Jeremy,

Thank you again for patiently explain all of this to me.

The reason I was hoping that I could edit with 720p29.97 is that my original film was shot 480i29.97 and in order to future proof my film, I wanted to take my old 480i timelines and replace their 480i content with their identical up converted 720p footage. But because 59.94 is twice the frame rate of 29.97, I would essentially have to re-edit all the sequences from scratch. As everything would have to be pushed forward. For example 1 second cross dissolve in a 29.97 fps timeline turns into a half second cross dissolve in a 59.94 fps timeline.

If I could up convert to 720p29.97, I would simply be performing “replace edits” (replacing all my 480i29.97 clips with their 720p29.97 substitutes without any clips shifting around in the timeline.

Just to be sure then, 720p29.97 is still not an up convert strategy you would recommend?