Film student needs HELP!..Print To Video

J

johnnyvegasusc

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UGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

So, I shot my project in the 24p advanced mode. Final cut pro captured it beautifully and I made sure to set it on the advanced pull down removal settings when capturing.

The problem is why I print to video. The cam corder will not play the video from the timeline. It leaves it as a blank screen. So, I found this in my cinema tools reader:

Adding Pull-Down to 23.98 fps Video
Final Cut Pro lets you add pull-down to 23.98 fps video as you output it via FireWire. As
discussed in the previous section, this is useful when you are editing 23.98 fps video and
want to output it to an NTSC device.
To add pull-down back in while sending 23.98 fps video to an NTSC device via
FireWire:
1 In Final Cut Pro, select the sequence.
2 In the Playback Control tab of the Sequence Settings window, choose a pull-down pattern
from the Pulldown Pattern pop-up menu.
See “Pull-Down Patterns You Can Apply to 23.98 fps Video” on page 201 for details on the
available patterns.
3 Output the video using your FireWire connection.
Refer to the Final Cut Pro documentation for details on outputting video.
The pull-down is performed on the video that is sent out of your computer via FireWire.

Well, I did all that and it still doesn't work. I tried to print to video some of my older projects (shot on another minidv at 29.97 and it works just fine. So there has to be something wrong with the 24p. Anyone know what's going on...Thanks so much :)

J
 
Figured it out!

Figured it out!

Well I figured out the problem. My editing time base was set at 24p. I started a new project and set the editing time base to 23.98. I then copied my project and rendered it in the 23.98 time base.

Now, on most sites and in the manuals, it says to add at 3:2 pulldown or the 2:3:3:2: pulldown when outputting. Even though it works now and it plays back on the cam corder, Final Cut Pro gives me a pop up thats says " using a 2:3:3:2 pulldown might result in lower quality. That's weird because I thought applying that when outputting with dvx100 would be better quality. Anyway, at least I figure it out! :)
 
Re: Film student needs HELP!..Print To Video

If you're going to tape for viewing the add 2:3:2:3 on playback. 2:3:3:2 replicates what the DVX does but isn't the smoothest looking video.
 
Re: Film student needs HELP!..Print To Video

I agree with scott.

You would only want to go back to tape with the 2:3:3:2 setting if you are backing up as a master, but not showing that version. This would allow you to take it back to 24 fps for any future uses.

If this is a copy going to tape for show then use the 2:3:2:3.

Glad you got it working. Sometimes slower machines have trouble adding the pulldown back to the video.
 
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