Steve Roberts
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Check your prefs — you might need to hold down alt as you drag.
Steve
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I stopped talking to store employees years ago.
Steve
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Import the sequence, then select the sequence in the Project window, then under file>interpret footage>main, set the frame rate to 1 fps.
… if I catch your meaning. 🙂
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There’s a tricky way to force XP to see it, but I haven’t heard of anyone who has made it work yet. Try searching the COW under “2GB” or “64-bit” and “XP”.
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Welcome, Motley!
BTW, the scrubbing is smoother when you hit Caps Lock to prevent the updating of the comp window. That is, if you don’t mind not seeing the visuals. 🙂
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Yep — to scrub audio, hold down the ctrl key (cmd on mac) as you move the current-time indicator (CTI). It’s in the help under keyboard shortcuts>keys for previewing.
You may find AE problematic for audio editing, since you can’t cut to an interval smaller than the comp’s frame duration (e.g. 1/30 of a second).
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I stand corrected. 🙂
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We have just reached the limit of my knowledge.
Actually, we reached that long ago, but I’ve been faking it since then. 🙂
I’d suppose that you should import the stuff twice: once with pulldown at 29.97, and once removing pulldown to 23.98, and place the two sets in two different folders in the project window. Next, work in two comps: NTSC 29.97 and PAL 25.
That’s the best I can do. As far as I know, there’s no simple process that would allow you to do all the work in one format then convert to the other with minimal loss, respecting/removing pulldown and all.
Anybody else?
Steve
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Search the COW posts for “signature” or “write” and you’ll find a few recipes. There should also be a tutorial, if I recall.
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All filmic material has pulldown added so it can be shown on NTSC TV at 29.97. 24p video cameras add that pulldown in the camera.
So if you’re delivering to DV (29.97), import the footage at 29.97 (don’t remove pulldown), and work in a 29.97 comp. You only want to remove pulldown if you’re doing some work that requires it, say, rotoscoping, or if you want to work on Varicam matrial at 23.98 for example, or go back to film.
People are used to seeing filmic material on TV at 29.97 with pulldown, so it’s cool to leave the footage at 29.97. It looks just as filmic (temporally) as film playing on TV.
As for the motion graphics, you could try rendering to the animation codec at 23.98, then re-importing and rendering to DV at 29.97 with pulldown added so the looks match. That should give you the look you want. Do a test.
At any rate, if you’re delivering DV, your final frame rate has to be 29.97 for NTSC, whether the footage is 24 pulled-down, or native 29.97.
Does that help?
Steve