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Philip Hack
June 15, 2010 at 10:37 pm in reply to: Dropped frames in FCP 7

Hi David,

I will take a look and see if I have those same problems. Thanks,

Philip
Philip Hack
June 1, 2010 at 7:41 pm in reply to: Kona LHi Dropping Frames on Output to Tape

Hi Shane,

Thanks for the sage advice. The reason for editing 23.98 footage in the timeline is because the show is a mix of interviews, graphics and archival footage. All of the graphics and some of the archival footage come as QTs. That all originates in 29.97. The alternative was to convert all that other material to 23.98 to edit in a 23.98 timeline and then re-convert it on the output, that didn’t seem like such a smart idea. The point of my post was not to point out the deficiencies of the FCP pulldown, but rather to find out if anyone knew why my output kept dropping frames when it is only playing back a rendered QT.
Philip Hack
June 1, 2010 at 4:14 pm in reply to: Kona LHi Dropping Frames on Output to Tape

Hi Doug,

The 2224 pulldown is what FCP does instead of a normal 3:2 pulldown when the conversion is done in the computer. At this point there is no reference going to the either the deck or the Kona card, it’s a stand alone system. Thanks!
Philip Hack
May 31, 2010 at 10:07 pm in reply to: Dropped frames in FCP 7

I’ve got similar problems, seemingly unresolvable. I’m running Snow on a 2.66 8 Core Mac with the latest FCP 7 updates all in with a Kona LHi. I’m using a GSpeed ES Pro 8TB ,4 disk array in Raid 5. The AJA tests tell me my drives don’t fall below 200 MB/s on the read side and higher on the write side. I’ve got a project that’s 1080i in a 29.97 ProRes sequence that was originally captured on an EX-3 at 23.98. FCP has put in its crappy 2224 pulldown sequence and everything in the timeline is now fully rendered at 29.97. When I try to print to video, I get dropped frames every time. I’m outputting to an HDCam deck (trying). I’ve even converted it to a quicktime to try to get it to play out and that doesn’t work either. Dropped frames all the time, all at different times in the sequence (never got more than 10 minutes of output). I’ve trashed the prefs, tried a new user – everything short of wiping the machine. The machine has never run anything but FCP and is about a month old. Any ideas?
Philip Hack
March 22, 2010 at 9:58 pm in reply to: Mixing XDCam 23.98 & SD For 29.97 output

Hi Matt,

How would you go about keeping the tracks separate and then doing the conform at the end? I like that idea. It lets the editor do what she wants, lets the clients see the output and gets a good result at the end. Can you specify a specific video track to send to compressor? After you do that, how do you re-link the media to the timeline?

Thanks,

Philip
Philip Hack
March 22, 2010 at 4:10 pm in reply to: Mixing XDCam 23.98 & SD For 29.97 output

Hi Matt,

Indeed, I’ve found several posts detailing the process to get 3:2 out of Compressor. I was just nervous as the settings don’t actually say 3:2 anywhere. I guess I’ll just have to test it and see.

I wish I could just put placeholders for the SD footage but there’s too much of it and it wouldn’t work anyway as I’ve got other 29.97 ProRes footage that is integral to the show.

It’s crazy but my only option seems to be to convert all this 23.98 footage to ProRes in Compressor. It’s about 600GB. I can’t imagine how long this is going to take! I’ll talk to the editor about rendering on the fly and see how that pans out.

It’s a drag that FCP doesn’t handle mixed formats well.

Thanks,

Philip