Mixing 720 24pN and 720 24p over 60 footage in Avid Express Pro HD

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David Cavallo

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Shot the pilot for a reality show with the HVX and Firestore FS-100 last summer (before the firmware upgrade was available for shooting native) and thus sent 720p 24p over 60
footage to post. The editor then cut the footage in a 59.94 project in Avid Pro HD.

Shot a new segment today with P2 cards replacing the FS-100, and in order to save drive space (and all the other good reasons to shoot native!) shot 720p 24pN.

Is there a way to mix these two types of footage in Avid Pro Express HD? I believe it's relatively simple in FCP 5 (and later) by just removing the duplicate 2:3 pulldown sequence from the Over 60 footage and converting it to true 24, but I don't work with Avid, so I'm not sure what to tell the editor.

Many thanks,
David
 
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One option for the Avid route is to remove the pulldown in the MXF files before editing with them. There is a great tool from DV Film called MXFX which can remove the advanced pulldown from the original MXF files and create a brand new CONTENTS folder which will appear to Avid as 720 24pN footage.
http://dvfilm.com/MXFX/index.htm
If he has already cut all the older over 60 footage, then thats more of a problem. You may even be better off adding the advanced pulldown to your new material, again using MFXF, but that seems a little quirky!!
 
Thanks, Marc. I've been eyeing that Raylight MXFX for some time now--seems like this is the perfect opportunity to get my hands on it!

And I suppose you're right--we may have to work in other direction, or just bite the bullet and remove all the pulldown from the original clips and re-edit the clips. If the show gets picked up we're definitely going to continue with native footage on the P2s, so perhaps we should just cut the cord now...
 
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