25fps & FCP3

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sowhatfilms

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Just a quick one. It might not be that ground-breaking nevertheless it works for me.
According to Apple, you cannot use FCP3 with footage shot progressive (in my case it'd be 25fps.)
Not true.
I have finished shooting a short film with my AG-DVX100a (pal) and decided to use F1 program (Rich) because of the above-mentioned FCP specifications. Later on I found myself shooting a few inserts and while playing with the camera I decided to shoot some stuff in both F5 (25P) & F6 (Scene Cine) mainly for f-stops purposes. Well, to my surprise all the footage was digitized by FCP3 without any problem at all.

I wish I had checked out before entering principal photography. I feel so stupid...
 
Make sure that when you playback the 24PA footage that the pulldown is actually getting removed. It is not glaringly obvious except when fast motion occurrs.
 
I don't want to say something completely wrong, but I am not sure how the pull down works with the EU (25fps) model. As far as I can see so far, everything's fine although you are right that when fast motion occurrs things get a bit, say, hectic.
 
If you step thru your footage frame by frame, and every 5 frames you see lines, then the pulldown is not being removed. If FCP 3 does not support 24PA, then this would be the symptom I think. I also am unfamiliar with the PAL model, so I am not sure if it even has advance pulldown, or if it works the same way.
 
what scottdvx100 has just said confirmed what I thought, i.e. that there's not pulldown in the pal version. Which is cool for the footage looks just great. Not time yet to move to HD for me, not that I can freely edit at 25fps from home... :-)
 
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