Are these setting correct? Please!

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APE Man

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I’ve read all the posts and I just want to be sure I’m doing this right before I capture 50 hours of footage. I shot in 24pa hoping for a film look for my documentary. I plan on screening at festivals and hope for a future theatrical release. I’m capturing my footage from my 100a. Are the following settings correct?

Sequence Preset: DV NTSC 48 kHz
Capture Preset: DV NTSC 48 kHz Advanced (2:3:3:2) Pulldown Removal
Device Control Preset: FireWire NTSC Basic
Video Playback: Apple Firewire NTSC (720x480)
Audio Playback: Build-in Audio
AND ANY OTHER SETTINGS I SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

I’m really sorry to ask something that had been asked to death, but I really new to all this. Thanks for all your help!
 
Sequence should be set to: DV NTSC 48k - 23.98
Set device control to Firewire NTSC NDF (non drop timecode which is what 24fps is)
Set Audio playback to follow video. If you output the video back to firewire (to record or to just view on monitor hooked to camera) then send audio out as well otherwise the audio will sound out of sync on playback.
Set playback settings to add 2:3:2:3 and set quality to high.
Rest of settings look fine. Do a short test first. Clips in sequence shouldn't need any rendering.
 
What about the post that said the FCP should be 29.97 (is that DV NTSC 48kHz)? Also, how do you set Audio playback to follow video? Thanks for all your help.
 
24pa needs a sequence of 23.98 since you'll remove pulldown on capture (or using the tool after capture)
29.97 (regular NTSC) is used if you shot 24p and don't plan to convert into pure 24fps.
 
DVX100 24pA footage should always be captured at 29.97 because that's what's on the tape. When a user wants to cut at 23.98 they need to properly remove the 2:3:3:2 pulldown introduced by the DVX100 during filming. The DVX100 flags these extra frames and embeds these flags into the Firewire data stream. FCP can read these flags back during ingest and conform the 29.97 pulldown footage back to the 23.98 captured by the camera. That is what the Remove Advance Pulldown from 2:3:3:2 sources checkbox in the capture settings is for. But in order to do this properly, the FPS setting in FCP must be set at 29.97 to give FCP the full firewire data stream and allow it to properly recognize the flags and remove the Advance pulldown frames.

If you set the capture FPS at 23.98, FCP will randomly delete frames to get from 29.97 to 23.98 but they will not be the correct frames. You'll wind up with a 23.98 file that looks odd during playback from FCP because the 2:3:3:2 interlaced pulldown frames are still there along with randomly missing progressive frames. This has become the number one issue plaguing FCP users with DVX100 footage who want to cut at 23.98 and has resulted in a lot of confusion. I've hoped to lobby Apple on this issue so that they might include a warning pop-up in FCP giving notice that 23.98 FPS capture will result in improperly digitized DVX100 footage but haven't made any headway and Panasonic hasn't been able to either- maybe you can help with that.

I know it seems counterintuitive that one would use 29.97 as the capture frame rate in order to ingest 23.98 footage but that's how it must be done because of the way the format is recorded to tape.

Noah
 
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