Checking footage cadence and Onlining in FCP

a.yakovlev@mac.com

a.yakovlev@mac.com

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This is a two part question.

First is there a way to see if your footage was shot in 24P normal or 24P advanced?

The second question has to do with onlining. I would like to redigitize 24P footage as 10-bit uncompressed (I have a Kona 2) from the sony miniDV deck. I set deck control to firewire, and video input to AJA component - but I'm still getting interlaced frames and that tells me that the pulldown isn't working. Is there some other piece of software that does this or is there a way .w just FCP and cinematools (when I bring the 29.97 footage into Cinematools and do a reverse telecine it gives me crazy options /w fields, etc, and then the footage is offsync when I reconnect). I need the frames to be exactly spot on as my 23.98 sequence NTSC DV quality. Anyone who had experience with this bizness your input would be greatly appreciated.

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a.yakovlev@mac.com said:
First is there a way to see if your footage was shot in 24P normal or 24P advanced?
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If you have the original tapes, just play them back in the camera, and toggle the COUNTER button until it shows the cadence. It'll print "24p" or "24pa" in the viewfinder.
 
CaptainMench said:
1) the only way I've figured it out is to count the interlaced frames.

2) --- GRAEME!!!!!

CaptM
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Do you mean NATTRESS? From reading their site I got a sense that Film Effects is just for footage that was shot in 29.97. Has anyone used this plugin /w footage shot in 24p?
 
Film Effects works great for stuff shot in 24p - you just turn off the 24p effect or use the plugins in the pack that don't do the 24p anyway.

To answer the question, put the canvas in FCP to 100%, set "view as square pixels" to off, and then move frame by frame though the video. You'll see whole frames and split frames. Normal 24p is three wholes then two splits. Advanced is 4 wholes and 1 split, I think.

BTW, I see no advantage in recapturing DV over analogue to 10bit video. Best to capture DV as firewire, and then, if you want to go out to DigiBeta, just change the sequence settings to 10bit uncompressed at the end, and re-render.

Graeme
 
I just screamed for Graeme because I figure he'd be better suited to answer the second part of the question...

CaptM
 
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