A way to determine frame rate?

[alan b]

If you'll excuse me, I thought I saw this dealt with on this or some other forum in the past but I am not finding it again.

I am in the middle of an edit that I shot in its entirety at 24; or so I thought. I was sitting here with my producers reviewing the doc when I and one of the prods noticed that one of the interview subjects looked oddly "video-ish" as opposed to filmlike. To my knowledge the DVX was always set to capture 24p but anything is possible. Is there some way too determine what frame rate a particular chunk of footage was shot at?

thanks

alan b

[bgundu]

What are you editing on and how did you capture the footage?

[alan b]

Shot on DVX100a, captured full res via Panasonic DV1000 deck, edited on a Mac G5 2.5 Ghz, OS 10.4.3, FCP 5.

[Anders Holck]

You can inspect the footage in the viewer.
Find a segment with a lot of motion.
Set the size to 100% from the viewer pop up.
Deselect "show as square pixels" from the viewer pop up.


If you have shot in interlace 59.97, every frame should show interlace bands in the viewer.
If you shot in 24 or 24 advanced some of he frames should be full frames without interlace bands.

[alan b]

Thanks Mr. Holck. That pretty much told the tale. Looking at the studio monitor, too, one can see the tell-tale flicker of interlaced frames even more clearly. I checked a clip that I was sure was shot at 24p and indeed I could see the 3:2:3:2 rhythm of full and interlaced frames.

Well...what now? I don't suppose laying down a deinterlace filter on the offending footage will much make up for the discrepancy in the frame rate, eh? Is there any hope of keeping this one interview from sticking out from the rest of the doc?

alan b

[smelni]

you could try magic bullet or a similar product

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/magbulsuit.html

[uhrgl]

I knocked my scene-file dial during a shoot recently and shot a bunch of stuff at 60i before I realized what had happened.

It's a common problem because I believe the B model has a recessed dial.

[alan b]

Yeah, you'd think with a control so integral to the end result, they would have come up with a paradigm that would be less susceptible to accidental movement. Oh well...I'll look into the Magic Bullet work-around.

Thanks all

ab

[adam powell]

alan b you write like a scientist.