Question about 24fps and FCP

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abeas

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I have a Panasonic HMC150 and 40. I have never used 24fps for anything but have been starting to experiment. I know all the rules about panning slowly and all that, so today I set my 150 stationary on a desk and just recorded some action with some people walking. Shutter speed was 1/48 of a second and manually focused. After I log and transfer into FCP, I drag the footage into the timeline and let FCP change sequence settings automatically. While the picture looks good, it looks to me that the people walking seem a little choppy, almost like frames are missing or duplicated. This happens at both 1080p24 and 720p24, the cameras native resolutions. Am I doing something wrong with the footage say it looks like this? I have an HDTV at home that displays 1080p24 and of all the blu-rays I have watched I never notice choppy movement with objects moving. Even TV show dramas shot at 24fps seem to look like nice smooth 29.97 framerate (I realize my TV adds pulldown for cable shows).
Is there anything I can do or try to get less choppy motion, or is this just how 24fps looks on my computer screen? Thanks for the advice.
 
Noah, they are 1920x1080, aspect ration says HDTV 1080i (16:9) pixel aspect is sqaure, editing timebase says 23.98, field dominance is none of course, compressor is apple prores 422 and quality is 100.
 
What are your hardware specs- that's a pretty heavy timeline. You would need fast FW800 or ESATA hard drives to play that back without dropping frames.

Noah
 
I was using an iMac, 3.06GHz, 4gb ram, ati 256mb graphics. Scratch disk, to my dismay is on the internal sata HDD. I am not getting any dropped frame messages when I play the timeline, and I have edited other AVCHD to pro res sequences on this computer before with no problems what so ever. I don't believe this is a hard ware issue, I think it's just my eyes not being use to the 24fps look. Still though, to me it doesn't look fluid, compared to other 24fps material I have seen. I thought maybe I was missing something I needed to do in FCP.
 
I'd suggest rendering out some edits to a finished clip. It's either just you and how you don't like 24p footage- or your hardware- which may just not be up to heavy duty ProRes cutting even if you're not getting drop frame warnings.

Noah
 
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