I'm cutting a multicam HVX shoot in FCP 5.0.4 using footage that recorded to P2 cards and the Firestore. The timeline is set to 23.98fps. Most of the footage recorded by the Firestore (@59.94fps) drops into the 23.98 sequence seamlessly by knowing what frames to drop in the progressive 2:3:2:3 pattern so that the timeline displays 24 progressive frames. However, for some of the 59.94fps clips FCP doesn't know how to drop the extra frames in the 2:3:2:3 cadence to get 23.94fps. The result in the 23.98 timeline is a doubling of every other frame, which looks like a 2:__:2:__ cadence.
This problem will occur when a clip is continuous but broken up by the Firestore DOS OS- meaning that the previous clip can be cut into a 23.98 sequence successfully and the next clip that is continuous will have frame doubling. It also can occur with a clip that is created independently and not continuous.
Frame doubling in the 23.98 timeline repeats if I re-import the problematic clips through the P2 Import. The problem also repeats if I export the problematic clips at their native frame rate from a 59.94fps sequence to try to create new clips with no association to the original metadata files.
Through testing I developed a solution to the frame doubling problem by exporting these clips with more than a few frames of black at the head of the clips from a 59.94 sequence, then importing the new FCP movies (@59.94). When these new clips are cut into a 23.98 sequence, only then does FCP recognize how to handle the cadence of the 2:3:2:3 pattern, dropping the extra progressive frames in order to end up with 23.98 fps.
Does anyone recognize this problem of frame doubling? Can anyone recommend an easier solution than exporting and re-importing the clips? I have way too much footage for this lengthy work-around.
This problem will occur when a clip is continuous but broken up by the Firestore DOS OS- meaning that the previous clip can be cut into a 23.98 sequence successfully and the next clip that is continuous will have frame doubling. It also can occur with a clip that is created independently and not continuous.
Frame doubling in the 23.98 timeline repeats if I re-import the problematic clips through the P2 Import. The problem also repeats if I export the problematic clips at their native frame rate from a 59.94fps sequence to try to create new clips with no association to the original metadata files.
Through testing I developed a solution to the frame doubling problem by exporting these clips with more than a few frames of black at the head of the clips from a 59.94 sequence, then importing the new FCP movies (@59.94). When these new clips are cut into a 23.98 sequence, only then does FCP recognize how to handle the cadence of the 2:3:2:3 pattern, dropping the extra progressive frames in order to end up with 23.98 fps.
Does anyone recognize this problem of frame doubling? Can anyone recommend an easier solution than exporting and re-importing the clips? I have way too much footage for this lengthy work-around.
