Easier FCP pulldown removal workflow

[Ben_B]

What do people think of this?

Rather than going through the time-consuming step of removing pulldown on all of your 1080 footage, why not simply edit without removing the pulldown, then, when finished, use media manager to create new video files of only what is in your timeline, remove the pulldown on those, and then make final cut reconnect (or rather, connect) with the new, reversetelecinedeinterlaced (how's that for a term!) footage?

Saves time and headache of doing this to all raw footage.

Anyone see any problems at all with this workflow? Seems fine to me!

[J Davis]

Because all key frames in audio and timing of your clips will be out in your new timeline as it has a different time base.

I generally keep records during a shoot so I know which takes are the best anyway. I only transcode the takes I need and remove pulldown on them. The rest I leave in the PRIVATE folder as AVCHD for the 'just in case' scenario

[Ben_B]

Wouldn't the timebase be the same though? If you edited in a 23.976 timeline?

[Ben_B]

Whoops....I guess the non pulled down stuff is 29.97? Well when I drop it in a native sequence or in a 23.976 sequence, or remove the pulldown (compressor) the time remains the same within a few frames....so why wouldn't this work? I should probably just run through it and then it will become very apparent...tomorrow.

[Ben_B]

Sorry for lots of posts. Can't seem to get final cut to want to reconnect cause names are different....I am making dumb mistakes trying to get this to work: time for bed.