Re: Offline down convert TC issue

I'm a big believer in not changing your editing time-base if you don't need to. Instead of of dumping to DVCAM why not just bring in your SR footage in an offline HD format for the edit? That way when you go back to conform, all of your timecode is 1:1 and you don't have any conversion headaches.

A few years ago when we were working on our first HD jobs I used to downconvert from HDCAM to digibeta and do my offline at 29.97 SD. While the conforms always went fine there were always extra steps involved. Once DVCPROHD was released we began doing all of our off-lines in that codec which kept everything perfectly clean when conforming later to Uncompressed 10-bit. It would also keep intact any Final Cut filters/effects, etc that I used to lose when going the EDL route through Cinema Tools. Not sure what system you're working on, but you should be able to find a solution that will work to keep your off-line at 23.976. Just my $.02, but I feel this is a much easier workflow.