View Full Version : Problem Possible with hv20 FCP


Zac Crosby
September 18th, 2007, 11:50 AM
Ok, so ive imported my 24p footage into FCP, almost done editing, and i realized i must have imported in 60i or something since as it is said the third and fourth frame are the same.... but ive almost finished editing the movie and don't want to have to do it again...

I am a mediocre FCP editor and i realized i don't know what to do

Jason Pierce
September 19th, 2007, 05:24 PM
You just need to remove pulldown.

There are numerous threads on here about how to do that.

You can do it after you've edited, though I'd recommend doing it first the next time.

Eugenia Loli-Queru
September 19th, 2007, 07:56 PM
The free way of removing pulldown is described here:
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/07/13/canon-hv20-24p-pulldown/
Otherwise, there are 3 commercial utilities that will do it from $100 to $800.

Glyn Williams
September 20th, 2007, 06:20 AM
You may be able to remove the pulldown at this point.

However when you edit at 60i - the 3:2 pulldown makes it is possible make a cut halfway through a 24p frame.
If you have done that, there's a chance that the cadence of interlacing will change across the cut.

As a general principle its probably better to convert all source footage to 24p first - and then edit it natively in 24p

Zack Birlew
September 20th, 2007, 10:47 AM
I used the Compressor method with ProRes and it worked like a charm. Although, that was before editing...

But I feel your pain. I used the DVX's 24P advanced mode on a complicated project and about halfway through editing I saw that even though I used the pulldown removal preset in FCP, the footage still came out to 29.97 instead of 23.98. Oops! I still have yet to go back and remaster that. Very painful.

Zac Crosby
September 20th, 2007, 03:20 PM
alright, i fixed it... well i ended up reimporting the footage from my cam, to edit it again...

at least i know how to this time

Austin Meyers
September 24th, 2007, 12:33 AM
something I've done before is to reconnect your edited media to files that you have removed pulldown on. It will say they dont match, but tell it to try anyway. Another way is to do the full edit in 60i and then run the finished product through something like JES deinterlacer, it can get weird on cuts, but with some tweaking you can get a useable result without reimporting/transcoding/editing

Joseph H. Moore
September 26th, 2007, 09:41 AM
The camera breaks the cadence with every clip, anyhow, so running a finished edit through JES is no harder. (You just have to make sure you have it set to watch for them.)

Michael Jouravlev
September 26th, 2007, 09:56 AM
The camera breaks the cadence with every clip
Is this a fact?

Joseph H. Moore
September 26th, 2007, 10:06 AM
Yes, it is definitely the case. You can verify this either by watching the frames or by letting JES try to process without detecting breaks, inc which case you get a mess.