Capturing footage shot in 24fps standard mode

I have footage shot on my Canon XL2 in 24fps standard mode. The question is what should my settings be on FCP to capture the footage properly and do I need to use cinema tools to convert the footage to 30fps after it is captured?

24P standard is fully compatible with (is) 29.97 NTSC footage, so the "normal" capture will work.
You may have misstated / mistyped? You do nothing to convert this to 30 fps. You CAN use Cinema Tools to generate true 24fps from this footage to edit on a 24fps (okay 23.98) timeline.

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Using footage shot at 24fps

What type of settings do I need utilize when capturing and editing footage shot at 24fps?
Anyone able tohelp
Thanks
Mike

Well,
I shot the footage already. I shot on the Canon XL2. I was trying to figure out how to capture it. When I set the audio/visual settings and have the timeline set at 24fps then bring the footage in, it needs to be rendered. The only way I can capture and have the footage not need to be rendered is when I have both the capture settings and the sequence settings set at 29.97. I do not know if it will effect my footage or not if I have it playing on the timeline at 29.97.
Thanks
Mike

Transfer AVCHD footage shot in SD standard into Final Cut

Shoot a performance with Sony Camera AVCHD in SD instead of HD. Unfortunately I will not be able to re-shoot this event. How can I use the footage in Final Cut. I shot in SD cus I use another Sony tape based camera, shooting in 1080i and capture to Final Cut at DV standard. I read somewhere that I should not mix HD and SD and that was why I set the avchd format camera to record in SD. What do I need to do. I have the latest version of Final Cut. Need help desperately.
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First, the FCP version I am using is 5.1.4.
Ouch. That's going to be a problem as "Log and Transfer", being FCP's interface for handling modern camera native tapeless media formats was only introduced and included with the FCP version 6 and later releases.
The exact message I get when I drag the clip to mpeg stream is "File Open Error. Unsupported file type"
Indeed, as with QuickTime, this AVCHD format is not natively recognized.
If you are working on a FCP 5.1.4 system then you're going to need a third party transcoding tool to convert this footage to a suitable edit format for your system (such as Apple Intermediate Codec aka AIC). Do you have Roxio Toast 10 or later? That has the capability to quickly transcode to any codec in your system. Another transcoding option is dedicated app like VoltaicHD. Or a favorite for many is a rewraping solution like ClipWrap 2 which manipulates only the container format in order to make the files readable on your system.

How to import video footage shot at 24fps

I did a shoot for a student project a couple of days ago using a Panasonic DVX100. The camera operator set the speed for 24fps, saying it would look more like film, and used anamorphic sqeeze. When I import the footage, though, the person's movement is jumpy, and the audio doesn't seem to match completely. I used DV-NTSC 32KHZ Anamorphic Basic for the capture.
Can anyone make a suggestion for the correct settings for import?

More likely the audio should be 48K, and you don't use FireWire Basic with this camera. Anamorphic is correct.
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Capturing Footage that has been shot in Long Play?

Good Morning All,
I have been giving a tape that has been shot in Pal Long Play and I can not log and capture this DV Tape at all. Everytime I do try the footage is just useless.
This may sound like a silly question but :
Does anyone know the settings that I would put on FCP 6 to log and capture footage that has been shot in Pal Long play?
Any help would by highly appreciated.
Thanks for your time,
Kevin

LP mode slows the tape to extend the recording time. If the camera/playback device does not have this mode, the material will play back either as noise or accelerated. In either case the images will be unusable.
You need a camera that understands PAL DV tapes recorded in LP mode. Your best bet may be the original cam.
Once you have the original cam/ or one that records/plays LP DV tapes, dub the material to a standard play DV then capture the SP DV tape. LP tapes are notorious for audio and video drifting apart. The audio will almost certainly be recorded as 12 bit/32 khz.
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Capturing footage at 12fps

Hello, I'm having trouble setting up a sequence and capture preset at 12fps. This is for Super 8mm (shot at 24fps) film telecined onto a mini-dv tape (29.97fps). I want to try capturing this footage at 12fps and can't get select 12fps in the set up box. The advanced setting doesn't allow me to either. I can't find anything in the manual on this, so hoping someone on the list might know if this is possible and if so, how. Thanks for any assistance, Alice

You can't capture at 12fps. 23.98, 24, 29.97, 30, 59.94 only. If your film was telecined to tape at 29.97, what you need to do is capture that at 29.97, then reverse telecine the footage, either in FCP or with Cinema Tools. That will get you to 23.98...which is 24fps, but at tape speed.
Shane

HELP!!! Captured footage "garbled"...

I'm in Gr. 12 using premiere to edit a movie project. I've been using premiere for about 6 or 7 years, since my brother introduced me to it. Over that time, I've learned the ins and outs really well. With such little time left to edit, I'm reluctanct to try to learn another editor. Every time I have a new video project, there seems to be a new Premiere out so I just get the new trial. Did this with CS4. Here's my problem:
I have a new camera; a Sony HandyCam HDR-HC3. I understand Adobe doesn't let you capture HDV, unless you pay for the whole thing (which I think is a real shame for poor ameteur editors like me). When I capture the footage in the standard SD, the picture acts all weird and becomes like deinterlaced or something. Audio is fine. I find a work-around about six months ago with CS3 but I don't remember it... . Video plays fine in VLC player. Anyone work-arounds?
Adobe capture the footage as .avi s.'
Update: This is driving me nuts. The videos play in FLV, WMP, and QT. Even adobe media player. WTH is going on?
Update 2: I tried capturing footage from a normal DV tape with this camera and the same damn thing happened. So it wasn't because I just shot it with an HDV tape.
Update 3: Windows FREAKING Movie Maker plays the captured footage fine.
Update 4: I've added an image of Gspot and of the garbled thing its doing.

The academic versions are very, very cheap. I wish that I could qualify for these. Sometimes I think of taking classes in an approved college, just to get these, but then I make $ with them (not forbidden, but certainly outside of the spirit), so I do not feel right doing so. Even when I did take classes, I only used my "discount" for books - never the software.
One bit of advice would be to completely low-level re-format your HDD and totally reinstall everything after using a trial, before reinstalling the full-paid version. I also highly recommend buying the full-paid version and installing it on a clean system. Too many trials and your system is likely filled with all sorts of detritus. Not a good thing at all, and it might take weeks of hunting around to remove it all. If you've had more than one trial installed, you are probably working on a machine that is about ready to systemically crash - this could well be a hard-crash, and nothing but a total rebuild will get it going again. Be very careful and do not commit important Projects to it.
Back to the lack of MPEG support in the trial: Your purpose is exactly why Adobe does not pay the licensing fee to MainConcept for the trials. Too many people abuse the trials, and this would cost Adobe $. Then, Jim, Eddie, I, and others would have to pay more for the software. That would make us all poorer for it. I'm not keen on supporting other folk with my work and efforts, regardless of what the tone in the US might be right now.
To put it bluntly, you're walking on egg shells here, as we all pay full-fare for our software.
Hunt

Re-capturing footage

Hiya,
I've captured and edited my footage at 59.94 fps (because of various time related and FCP related issues) but at some point the clips may need to be recaptured at 24fps (filmed on Panasonic Varicam DVCPROHD). Will this cause major problems in the edit? I.e. Is the sound all going to go out of sync and are the edit points going to be a few frames out?
Basically I'm wondering if it's worth recapturing, so ultimately my question is if 59.94 fps is a viable and usable frame rate when is comes to the final product (which will be onlined at a post production house and may go onto film)?
Any help wld be massively appreciated, if only because rehiring the deck will cost money and not having to do that would be great. Any help at all...

JoJunior...you need to find out. That is pretty much a basic item to know even BEFORE you start editing. But that is for your future knowledge. That doesn't help you now. I'd ask the telecine house that question, but I am thinking that it might be an issue, as for smooth transfer you want 24fps or 23.98.
Hmmmm...what to do... Because I don't think you can capture the clips at 23.98 once the clip information says that they are 59.94. The only option I can see possibly working on the re-capture end is to export an EDL (this means that you can really only have 1 layer of video) and using Cinema Tools to convert that. I once edited a short telecined to HDCAM then dubbed to DVCAM, and I didn't remove the pulldown so I edited in a 29.97 timebase...what I was told by the post super of the post facility. Then the editor called and wondered why I didn't edit 23.98...gah! I had to send them the project file and a converted EDL. YOu might try that. That might allow you to recapture the clips at 23.98.
Or you can try dropping the entire sequence into a 23.98 sequence and rendering. That works when I have footage shot at 59.94 that I want to incorporate. But I am not sure how that would treat a full show. Do a test for both and see.
Shane

Digitizing Progressive scan footage shot in PAL with panasonicDVX100AE

Hi,
Does anyone have an idea if i can use a different camera (for instance the Canon XM2 Mini DV) for digitizing this material into FCP or do i need special equipement for it since i can not use the original Panasonic camera for digitizing anymore?
footage shot in pal progressive scan mode.
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Tal

#2 Playback is blurry
Shane's Stock Answer #2:
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL PAL MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
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2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
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Capturing Footage at 60fps

Hello everyone. I'm looking for a positive solution to the problem that some folks experiencing as well. This problem applies to the capturing footage that has been taped at 60FPS. I contacted several forums regardings this issue as well as Apple Tech Support unfortunately no luck. May be you have an answer to this mass. Thanks to all.

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Best way to log footage shot on P2 Cards?

What is the best way to send footage shot on P2 cards to an offsite location for logging and transcribing? Any suggestions on converting the MXF files to MOV or other formats without having to buy a $600 program would be appreciated.

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Import into FCP. String out on a timeline. Export a reference movie. Take into Compressor, add the TIMECODE READER in the FILTERS area, encode for DVD.
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What is the proper way to import screen captures into FCP and how do I export them without loosing resolution.
Thank you ahead of time to everyone who has any input?

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When you saved your SnapZ Pro X movies, a window comes up allowing you to choose the video codec to use when saving the file. What settings did you use?
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This has happened twice now so I know its not just a fluke. A captured video was unplayable - unaccessible even - inside of FCPro 7. It acts like its 1 frame long rather than 27 minutes.
But when I checked the file in scratch disk / captured / proj and it opened in Quicktime and played just fine. Absolutely nothing wrong with it. Except that when I reimported the raw into FCPro, same result - unplayable.
So I used quicktime to export a copy that I was then able to import into FCPro and worked perfectly. But WHY wasn't the captured footage available ? I will not re-render all my raw footage every time I capture something. That's just crazy talk!

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I go in and hack up the footage using either Add Edit or Set In/Out>Delete the unwanted stuff (custom hotkeys rule!). Then I rearrange the footage into various Sequences as I need them.
So, if it were a year end Sports Memory video, I'd put all the running shots in a Running Sequence, and all the eating shots in an Eating Sequence, or whatever. If it were a Wedding I'd put all the Ceremony footage in a Ceremony Timeline... etc.
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The HC3 is an HDV camera that can shoot DV. Just to be clear, you shot in HDV not DV, is that correct?
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Capturing footage shot in 24fps standard mode

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