Dvrack VFR problems?

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pftricolor

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Hi,

I Did a video clip using primarily dv rack. We shot 720 24p and did a lot of 36 fps footage. The editor just called me, and said that the 36fps clips, are not playing at slow motion as they should be. apparently they are playing at regular speed even though they are on a 24p timeline. They are using Final Cut to edit.

I did a quick search on dvxuser and found this very disturbing post by karl soule: :Okay, we've been able to confirm this on our end. There is a bug with frame rates higher than 25fps in PAL, and higher than 30fps for NTSC. It's causing DV Rack to duplicate frames above those rates. Our lead programmer has already written a fix, and it's going through testing right now."

This is the kind of information that the guys from serious magic should send to every customer you have on their database. This can seriously damage my reputation.

Is this for real? I'm really hoping to get an answer, that its just a simple mistake the editor is doing. I am really worried, so ny help will be greatly apreciated.

Thanks,

Pedro
 
Timur,

I always shoot vfr with cards, specially because from waht I tested, dvrack recorded normally but played the clips at real time, so there was no way for me to see the slowmotion result right away. I asked Mark mapes about it and he just answered that playback on dvrack would be always realtime. He didn't say anything about any problems with the clips.

But I'm not asking for future reference, I'm asking if the material I recorded will be slow motion, or if this producer will never call me again.

Thanks,

Pedro
 
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