Advice on how to combine several Final Cut Timelines

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taaltrek

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I'm working on turning in an entry for my Colleges film festival. My entry is a series of five previews (action, suspense, mystery/drama, zombie, and documentary/horror). I have all of the final cut projects and now I need to combine them and then render them. My problem is that some of the projects are 24fps 1080p and some are 60fps 720p (I'd like the final output to be 24fps). On top of that, I edited some of the projects on my computer, and my roomate edited some of the other projects, I don't have all the final cut plugins so I can't render his projects even though I have all the footage. Is there some way I can get my roomate to render his projects from his final cut with minimal quality loss? Once I'm done, what's the best way to get good quality HD footage onto vimeo or Youtube? Any advice would be a huge help. Thanks!

P.S. Most of the footage was shot on a GH2 and then transfered into final cut using the Log and Transfer feature.
 
taaltrek said:
I'm working on turning in an entry for my Colleges film festival. My entry is a series of five previews (action, suspense, mystery/drama, zombie, and documentary/horror). I have all of the final cut projects and now I need to combine them and then render them. My problem is that some of the projects are 24fps 1080p and some are 60fps 720p (I'd like the final output to be 24fps). On top of that, I edited some of the projects on my computer, and my roomate edited some of the other projects, I don't have all the final cut plugins so I can't render his projects even though I have all the footage. Is there some way I can get my roomate to render his projects from his final cut with minimal quality loss? Once I'm done, what's the best way to get good quality HD footage onto vimeo or Youtube? Any advice would be a huge help. Thanks!

P.S. Most of the footage was shot on a GH2 and then transfered into final cut using the Log and Transfer feature.
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Well... I don't use FCP... nor do I shoot at 60 fps... but a couple of things that come to me are:

1) Are you putting this onto a DVD for submission to the fest?
2) If DVD, then there's really no point in conforming the 60 fps to 24, but rather make it standard NTSC 29.97 fps. Which I think is putting your 60 fps into a 30 fps timeline and going 50% on the time remap. (Others who use FCP could probably give better instructions on how to conform 60 fps to 30.)

3) Does either FCP or DVD Studio allow for the 24 fps material to be 'telecined' so that all your projects are standard NTSC, hence no problem.

While DVD and the underlying MPEG2 do have a 24 fps flag, I don't know how DVD Studio works in that regard.
 
Export a Quicktime movie from each FCP sequence, using a high-quality codec (say, ProRes or DVCProHD). This will give you final footage of sufficient quality. Compress these separately for DVD using compressor, without any explicit frame rate conversions... this will give you progressive 24p or 30p as appropriate to the source material, and will let the DVD player play them in the best way possible. Make each one a separate TRACK on the DVD, so it will play as 24 or 30fps as appropriate. For vimeo or youtube, make a decent-quality H.264 version to upload...
 
ullanta said:
Export a Quicktime movie from each FCP sequence, using a high-quality codec (say, ProRes or DVCProHD). This will give you final footage of sufficient quality. Compress these separately for DVD using compressor, without any explicit frame rate conversions... this will give you progressive 24p or 30p as appropriate to the source material, and will let the DVD player play them in the best way possible. Make each one a separate TRACK on the DVD, so it will play as 24 or 30fps as appropriate. For vimeo or youtube, make a decent-quality H.264 version to upload...
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So 'Compressor' will telecine 24 fps material or will it 'flag' it as 24 fps? And will "Compressor" conform 60p to 30p with some 'options'?
 
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