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Raw footage Frame Rate
Posted by rogarguello
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Re: Raw footage Frame Rate December 02, 2011 02:54PM |
It's not a great move. I'm on a project where they had some stuff shot on 30fps (Flip cams). I slowed the footage down to 25fps. Not too noticeable.
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Re: Raw footage Frame Rate December 02, 2011 02:59PM |
You have two frame rates. FCP doesn't do a good real time frame rate conversion so you're left with converting to a single frame rate.
Importing/Converting the the 5D footage at it's native frame rate is the first thing.
Editing in one of those frame rates is your next choice. If sync is an issue I would edit at 30 (29.97 right or was it from before when they only shot integral rates?)
That means you have to add pulldown to your 24fps stuff. You do this in a number of ways. Send it to some place that has a converter or do it yourself using something like JESDeinterlace. There are other solutions. Once the 24 stuff is converted to 29.97 you edit everything in a 29.97 ProRes sequence. Hooray for you.
Another option if the 30 or the 24 stuff is not very rate dependant is to conform it to play at the other speed. This will result in a significant speed up/slow down but depending on the footage that may work for you. You can do that in the "Conform Clip" function of Cinema Tools which came with FCP Studio 1 thru 3.
EDIT: Do a bit of reading on "Pulldown" so you have an idea on whats happening to the 24 frames to get it to 30.
ak
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Importing/Converting the the 5D footage at it's native frame rate is the first thing.
Editing in one of those frame rates is your next choice. If sync is an issue I would edit at 30 (29.97 right or was it from before when they only shot integral rates?)
That means you have to add pulldown to your 24fps stuff. You do this in a number of ways. Send it to some place that has a converter or do it yourself using something like JESDeinterlace. There are other solutions. Once the 24 stuff is converted to 29.97 you edit everything in a 29.97 ProRes sequence. Hooray for you.
Another option if the 30 or the 24 stuff is not very rate dependant is to conform it to play at the other speed. This will result in a significant speed up/slow down but depending on the footage that may work for you. You can do that in the "Conform Clip" function of Cinema Tools which came with FCP Studio 1 thru 3.
EDIT: Do a bit of reading on "Pulldown" so you have an idea on whats happening to the 24 frames to get it to 30.
ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!
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Re: Raw footage Frame Rate December 02, 2011 03:48PM |
Why 24?
If you conform 30fps material to 24fps (29.97 to 23.976) it should appear slightly slow motion.
Conform will actually change the clip, so generally the suggested workflow is to copy the original footage and conform the copy.
ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!
If you conform 30fps material to 24fps (29.97 to 23.976) it should appear slightly slow motion.
Conform will actually change the clip, so generally the suggested workflow is to copy the original footage and conform the copy.
ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!
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Re: Raw footage Frame Rate December 02, 2011 04:07PM |
There is no Modify menu in Cinema Tools 4.
ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!
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Cinema Tools Manual
Make sure all the clips you want to conform are in the same folder.
Choose File > Batch Conform.
In the dialog that appears, select any clip file in the folder that contains the clips you want to conform, then click Choose.
Note: You only need to select one clip file. All the clips in the folder will be conformed.
In the Batch Conform dialog, choose a frame rate from the ?Conform to? pop-up menu, then click Conform.
After the batch conform process is completed, the following occur:
The clips are conformed to the chosen frame rate and placed in a Cinema Tools?created subfolder named ?Conformed [frame rate],? where ?frame rate? is the new frame rate for the clips. A folder might be named Conformed 24.0, for example.
If Cinema Tools is unable to complete the conform process for a clip, that clip is moved into a Cinema Tools?created subfolder named Skipped. (A clip is not processed if it doesn?t contain a video track, if the frame rate is not supported, or if no codec is found for the video track.)
A text file named ?conform.log? appears at the top level of the folder. This log gives the date and time that the process started and ended, for each clip. If any problems were encountered, such as running out of disk space or memory, an error message describing the problem also appears in the log.
ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!
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Re: Raw footage Frame Rate December 02, 2011 04:47PM |
Cinema Tools is a separate application. It's installed in your application folder along with all the other apps that came with FCS3. Like Compressor and DVD Studio Pro.
ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!
ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!
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