[Nick Meyers]

[Ted Coakley] “Finally, FWIW, Michael, I didn’t understand when you said that 29.975 is not a real rate, since I’ve read all over the interwebs that true NTSC is not actually 29.97, but, rather 29.975 or 29.976 (I see both mentioned a lot). You saying NTSC is not either of those, but just 29.97?
Just curious.”

29.97 the the “real” frame rate
you are perhaps thinking of 23.976, which is a “real” frame rate that often gets abbreviated to 23.98,
or just 24p

[Nick Meyers]

if 29.97 isn’t available,
try confomring to any other frame rate, then back to 29.97

n

[Nick Meyers]

open the clip in CT
at lower left click on he “Conform” button
choose your free rate.

good luck
nick

[Nick Meyers]

nothing lighter than CinemaTools
its a small app, very easy to use,
and you have it.
what’s that they say about a bird in the hand?

good idea from michael, btw

n

[Nick Meyers]

you are asking an FCP7 question in the FCPXDebates, forum.
you might get an answer, but would probably be better off re-posting in the FCP Legacy forum.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

hi Ted.
its strange alright, i don’t really know if there’s a simple answer.
-can you get the DV capture from the post house that did it?

other approaches:
1.
re-sync the audio in a FCP timeline, and export
2 ways to do this: every 150 seconds, adda frame, or rather duplicate a frame of audio,
(blade the audio and slip the right hand side 1 fr)
(NB the 150 seconds is according my calculations, which could easily be wrong, I’m a bit tired, maybe you should double check them!)

find you end sync point, and trim the audio to there
double click into the viewer,
mark in/outs around your picture in the timeline
and do a fit to fil edit back into the timeline (drag to GREEN window in canvas, or Shift+F11)
this will stretch it out to fit the image.

exporting from FCP will NOT add generational loss to your video,
if you export a QuickTIme move, using the default “Same Settings”

2.
extract or export the audio from the QT file
maybe bringing that int FCP it will behave???

one more thing to look into:
do your sequence presets match your clip?
there is a known fault in FCP where imported AUDIO ONLY will take on the frame rate of the selected sequence preset,
and if that does match your video frame-rate, then the audio will drift against the video when synced.

its hard to believe that this could cause a file containing both the video and audio to drift within itself,
but who knows??

good luck with it,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

Mpeg Streamclip can work in batch BUT it will strip all the metadata from the files so is not recommended.
Compressor *should * keep it.
Media Manager will defiantly keep it AND update your sequences to the new format should you want that.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

you seem to still have FCP, so you can use that to transcode to Prores.
you could media manage from with your project/s
or just make a new project to media manage from,
or use Resolve.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

“the export fails with an error message”

what are you using to export?
i would suggest DaVinci Resolve.
it’s free, and good at doing batch exports.
Mpeg Streamclip is also free, and good at batches.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

“the file size is about 61MB, which seems odd, should be more like 700MB.”
” the export size was only 31MB for a 3min. video….not at all the usual. Would normally be about 800 MB in the past”

this indicates to me that you are exporting as a REFERENCE FILE
you need to have “Make Movie Self Contained” checked
it’s towards the bottom left and corner of the export window.