Re: Practical telecine questions

From: Myron Ort (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Mar 30 2010 - 15:11:55 PDT


My thinking was, if transferred at 29.97 then in fcp choose 15fps
then every frame will appear twice, similar to what happens if
optically printed to reduce speed.

On Mar 30, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Dave Andrae wrote:

> I'm not an expert either, Myron, but if you get it transferred at
> 24p (actually 23.976), then you could play it at 62.5% in FCP and
> achieve the effect of 15fps (if that's what you want).
>
> -DA
>
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> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Myron Ort <email suppressed> wrote:
> I do not understand why 24 is a better way to go than 29.97. I do
> not pretend to understand very much of any of this. But, every
> expert I talk to seems to have a different answer. All I want to do
> is be able to make a dvd with my handpainted films showing at
> approximately silent speed which seems like is would be exactly
> half of the 29.97. And I understand that when you telecine transfer
> at 29.97 you are getting every frame. I could either do a rate
> change in fcp to "15 frames per second" or figure out how to have
> fcp do every frame twice. I have to then convey this to the friend
> who helps me with the fcp work.
>
> MO
>
>
> On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Dave Andrae wrote:
>
>> My advice would be to get your film transferred in 24p, and then
>> once you have the transferred footage, play it at half speed.
>> Technically if it's playing at exactly 50% there should be no
>> ghosting, but if there is you can easily make an image sequence of
>> your footage and then import it all back into FCP and make the
>> duration of each individual tiff two frames in length instead of
>> one on your timeline. (Just remember to adjust the duration in
>> your preferences before importing.)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Myron Ort <email suppressed> wrote:
>> I have hand painted footage. I was thinking of having the
>> telecine transfer at 29.97 and then in FCP ramp it down to half
>> that speed.
>> Anyone done this using Final Cut? Any pointers on how to best
>> achieve this? I wanted to preserve each frame without weird
>> artifacts, and to have the final dvd result run smooth.
>>
>> Myron Ort
>>
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