23.98 timeline to a 29.97 timeline!

[SplitVision]

okay, i'm an idiot.

i shot 24p (dvx) and edited my 1 hour piece on a 24fps timeline.

yes, i know, big mistake.

when i exported the project and burned a dvd i was finally able to see all the strobing it caused, and quickly deemed the project un-usable.

to fix the situation, i copied the original 24fps timeline and brought it into a new 29.97 one.

the footage looked great, and all the cuts were in the right place. BUT the source footage was all over the place!!! most of my shots now had different footage linked to them.

what happened!?

how would you correctly take an edited 23.98fps piece and put it into a 29.97fps timeline?

thanks!

 

[Geoff_R]

Depending on how long your piece is, I might suggest re-editing on a new 29.97 sequence and use the 23.98 as a visual reference.

If you shot normal 24p and edited on a 23.98 timeline; you probably had to render out everytime you added a clip and in that process, FCP is stripping the 29.97 stream and conforming it to fit into a 23.98 stream.

In that process, you're losing frames of your video...Now when you bring that footage over to a 29.97 stream by copying it, sure all the edits are in the right place but you're going to be looking at slightly different source footage due to the time shift.

It really sucks but I think the best way to ensure your footage comes out right in the end is to start from scratch on that 29.97 timeline. I've had to do a similar operation with a 20 min project where the project file actually went bad and I had to re-cut from the top of my head; it only took about a day of work since I already knew what shots I was using and how things we're flowing. Here you can at least use the 23.98 sequence as a reference. You should be able to re-cut much faster this time around.

I'll do some searching and look for other ways around it. Maybe there is a way to just re-conform the footage using the in-points of each edit... If I find anything, I'll post here or PM you.