Russell Lasson
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My favorite way of doing it involves a Decklink or AJA card. Digitize it over component video from the DVD plaer. It’s the fastest and most reliable way I’ve found.
Of course if you don’t have a card, then you’re stuck with software. I hate doing this way because it takes forever and it always seems like I’m playing with settings to get it right.
So if someone knows of some great software to do this, I’m interested too (though I’ll still just use my AJA or Decklink card.)
-Russ
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Three progressive frames and then two interlaced frames is a traditional 3:2 pulldown.
A pulldown that duplicates every 4th frame is a 2:2:2:4 pulldown.
You called a 2:2:2:4 pulldown a “normal pulldown”.
In all reality, a 2:2:2:4 is typically an abnomal pulldown. Most people use a 3:2 pulldown to convert from 24P to 29.97. Panasonic products often use a 2:3:3:2 pulldown that they’ve labeled 24PA or 24P Advanced. Does the JVC camera really shoot at 2:2:2:4? I’ve never used that camera.
-Russ
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Exporting to Soundtrack Pro is really the way to do it. It is kind of a pain, but in the long run when you really figure out how to get from FCP to STKPRO back to FCP it can work really well…. I’ve heard. While I have had some wonderful success stories with STKPRO, I haven’t played with it enough to really understand how to set up the files going in and out of it so they don’t end up going off line. But I would definately take it into STKPRO.
It’s on my list of things to learn.
Good luck.
-Russ
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So you shot onto miniDV using the HVX200. Did you have any setting like 480i/24P or 480i/24PA turned on when you shot? How did you digitize the footage?
To give is info on your timeline, select the timeline an hit APPLE-0. What does it say? What is the editing timebase? Compressor? Do you need to render the footage when you put it in your timeline?
I’m still not understanding how you’re playing it back on a TV. Did you burn it to DVD? You can’t export as “DV 10-bit uncompressed.” It’s either DV, or 10-bit. So once you exported it what did you do?
Would you please go step by step on what you’ve done?
-Russ
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You can conform it to 25fps using cinema tools.
Open your clip up in cinema tools and select conform. Then choose 25fps. It will overwrite your old clip so you’ll want to do it on copies of your footage just incase you need to go back to 60P.
-Russ
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Here is a link to the frame rate converter.
https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/support/fcphd.asp
-Russ
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You need to select downmix output in the audio mixer to hear the other channels. The button is right above the audio levels meter in the audio mixer window.
-Russ
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That does work!!! Nice thinking. But I don’t understand why. If in the comp, it is skipping every other frame, when selecting lower field first, why does it change on the rendered output, even though it’s still skipping every other frame?
Thanks!
-Russ
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If I understand you, you want to export each audio track as it’s own mono file, so that channels 1 and 2 aren’t linked in one file.
To do this, open you sequence setting, select the audio outputs tab on the right and change the Grouping to Dual Mono. This will now export two files. I you want more files exported, then you need to change the number of audio outputs to however many exports you need. From there you will need to map which track exports to which audio output by right clicking on the track (right over the lock) and changing the audio output.
Now that you’ve done this, select File-Export-Audio to AIFF(s). This will output each track as mono or stereo, depending on what you selected in the audio outputs tab and depending on which output the track is mapped to.
Hopefully I explained it well enough. If you have other questions, please ask.
-Russ
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Just kidding.
Enzo is right. We need to know your setup and how you’re trying to do what you’re trying to do to be able to offer any suggestions.
Good luck.
-Russ