[Veronica Rutledge]

That’s exactly what I wanted to hear, thanks!

Ronnie

[Veronica Rutledge]

I’ve been finding, generally, that ‘0’s and ‘5’s will do the trick. Sometimes though the deck doesn’t catch the right frame in which case it will be a game of trial and error. (I found ones worked sometimes when zeros didn’t.) It also depends on whether the footage was shot using a standard or advanced pull-down.

As for recapturing, my shots were off by roughly a second (+ or -).

Here’s what I believe is happening: The tapes we’re using had a pull-down applied to them withing the camera during shooting to match the rate of video- 29.97 fps. When we capture them into the Avid, we’re removing the pull-down and 6 frames are dropped per second to match the 23.98 time frame of the project. Therefore, over time all of those dropped frames add up and will throw off the time code in the project from that of the tape. (Similar to the concept of trying to match a DF sequence with an EDL that was exported as NDF; at first it will match up but after some time, the gap between the two will become larger and larger.)

Hope that helps!

Ronnie

[Veronica Rutledge]

Same connection (SDI through Mojo), different in-points to avoid a jittery image on clips that didn’t start on a ‘0’ or ‘5’.

Ronnie

[Veronica Rutledge]

Thanks for confirming that.

The original material started at 29.97 fps 1080 (video) and was transfered to 23.98 1080 via Teranex.

I haven’t dealt with any tapes that were down-converted to SD, I’ve just been importing at the original resolution and down converting upon import.

Ronnie

[Veronica Rutledge]

Thanks for clearing that up Terence!

Ronnie

[Veronica Rutledge]

[Terence Curren] When you capture into an Avid 23.98 SD project, it removes the extra fields based on a standard 2:3 pulldown added with the A (or first frame in a pulldown sequence) being a zero or five.

This part still confuses me- when the 2:3 pulldown is applied upon import into Avid, should it read at the same frame rate of the project? Because my footage is being captured at a frame rate of 29.976.

Ronnie

[Veronica Rutledge]

Thanks Terence,

That’s what I suspected so I started capturing this way and it does seem to make a difference however I do think the media is being down converted because even though it’s coming from an HD deck, it’s going through a Mojo SDI port.

Furthermore, (and maybe this is normal) my clips are being logged at 29.98 fps, not 23.976. Will this cause problems when I am ready to uprez?

This is my understanding of shooting at 24 fps… The camera pulls down to 30 fps (because that’s the time base of ALL video) and when you import into Avid, you remove that pull-down. Is that correct?

Ronnie