[Tom Durham]

What’s amazingly bizarre is that some clips look perfect–no stutter–and some stutter. Same settings, same import, etc etc. FCP seems to be inconsistent with which clips it is smart with! Makes no sense.

But thanks for your input!

Some day check out 95ers.com. That’s the movie. Bad workflow… great movie!!!

[Tom Durham]

Yes, we shot 24p on the Varicam. But the P2 mobile just takes the HDSDI and knows that it’s actually getting 59.94, so it just records the whole thing as if I want all 59.94. I don’t think it passes the flags on to AVC-Intra. But if it does, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t retain them as converts to ProRes during L&T.

But either way, if I’m stuck with real 59.94 ProRes files… what’s the best way to get them down to 23.98?

And why doesn’t FinalCut just intelligently pull frames when I drop it into a 23.98 timeline?

Simple exports from Quicktime or AfterEffects do it perfectly. (But again, I’m trying to avoid losing a generation.)

Thanks again for any help gents.

[Tom Durham]

Actually, I just went into L&T and “Remove Advanced Pulldown and Duplicate Frames” is checked. So I’m guessing it was checked for the whole thing. Honestly, I can’t remember! We were shooting and transferring so fast during a crazy two weeks. Unfortunately, the P2 cards are all formated.

But the files as I have them are Apple ProRes HQ 59.94, and it seems like all 59.94 frames per second are all there, since when I conform it to 23.98 in CinemaTools, it creates an instant, perfect slo mo.

[Tom Durham]

Alas… I did not!