24p video looks blurry in FCP 3

[Guest]

Greetings everyone,

I have this problem. I shot my video on a DVX 100 Panasonic camera in 24P Standard mode, thick. I have Final Cut Pro 3. I'm editing on a 29.97 timeline and I imported the media as 29.97. When I put video clips on the timeline, it plays back fine and I don't have to render it.

However, when I adjust the speed of a clip, e.g. I change the speed from 100% to 75%, thereby making the clip longer and forcing me to render it, the playback of the video becomes blurry. When I take the video and reverse it, it does the same thing.

I'm thinking it's because I'm not using a 24p timeline. Apparently that feature is not available in FCP 3, but available in FCP 4. When I adjust the speed of a clip, it probably has to "blend" in the frames and because the media is 24 frames and I'm editing on a 29.97 timeline, that throws it out of wack and that's why it's blurry

Can anyone help me solve this problem?

Thanks,

Anthony Faust

 

[Boy]

Re: 24p video looks blurry in FCP 3

in short, slowing down footage with pulldown is a no go. since there are redundant frames it just makes an awful mess...
you are right about the 24p timeline, it would look a lot better if you had the original 24 frames (pulldown removed). however it won't look as good as 30p or 60i slowed down due to the lesser number of frames per second.