[Xenoyn]

This is the process we went through, please comment if there’d be any problem areas:

1. Shot 24fps 35mm film and recorded live audio on a 30fps non-drop DAT recorder.
2. Did Telecine transfer of Film material to 30 fps betacam tapes
3. Recorded into FCP without using Edge Code information from Film Transfer Log
4. Sent quiktime video and OMFI audio to ProTools (initially without a Sync I/O)
5. Installed a Sync I/O and added a declink device to do monitoring of the QT file on a plasma wide-screen TV.
6. 30fps Video seems to Sync and we continued with dubbing, vo, sfx and foley.
7. Simultaneously, an Online Post House using a Discreet Smoke, conformed the 30fps video output to the original Film Material by manually matching start and end frames provided in the EDL. A Reference betacam tape of the offline output was also provided.
8. 60% into the Audio editing, Online Post house provided a 30fps copy of the conformed material and is digitized for use in the pre-mix.
9. When the ProTools editor finishes his 30fps project, we will then convert it to 24fps, record it to 35 mm magnetic tape and expects it to lock on to the conformed online 24fps video which was recorded back to film using a Celco Film Recorder.
10. Note that this is a Digital Intermediate project and the only time video and audio will be married is after both video and audio have been recorded to film and magnetic tape.

My questions now are:

1. Will there be a problem with Sync because of not having a timebase/house sync right from the beginning?
2. Will the conversion from 30fps to 24fps work, considering that I was referenceing to a QT file (sent out through a Decklink) which seems to run in sync with a Sync I/O enabled ProTools system?
3. If there’d be a problem to this workflow, how can I correct it now that we’re almost 80% into the project already.

Cheers!

[Xenoyn]

Borjis,

Hey, thanks for replying.

As a matter of fact, yes they do have a Sync I/O. I’m not very keen on having to work with Quicktime on ProTools as it gives me a very small frame to work on when dubbing or doing sound fx. But does Decklink have a solution for this too? I mean, is there a card/board that I can connect to ProTools to playback quicktime on a reference monitor?

Going back to my original post, will there be an advantage to installing a Blackmagic 4:4:4 to my existing FCP system if I were to work with ProTools? I know Avid with a Mojo will interface better, but my budget is kinda limited so I went on to consider Blackmagic. I just don’t know how it would affect AV lock for a long form Film Project which will finish on a DI.

Thanks in advance guys!