Handling a Framerate Mix-Up

[Filetmignon]

Hi all,

I am working as a consultant on editing a project. Unfortunately, I've not been able to be involved in all of the necessary steps and I'm dealing with teaching myself and somebody else Premiere CS3 at the same time.

Here's the situation: The footage was recorded in 24P Cine mode on a Canon HV30. I created a 24fps project and we began working on editing. Only later did I notice that the footage was 29.97fps. Somebody else captured the footage to the computer, so I assume there was a pulldown while capturing. So now I'm working with 29.97 fps in a 24fps timeline.

From my reading, it seems to me that Premiere is relatively lenient in mixing framerates. But I just want to be certain this is the case. Will there be any issues? For best results, should I try to fix the problem so that everything is nice and consistent? If so, how?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Huy Vu]

HV30 doesn't have automatic pulldown removal flag so the footage will be 29.97. If you really want to remove them either look into Cineform Neo or do a google search for pulldown removal. The Cineform way is simple: just load the footage and it does it automatically. The free way is a lot more work.