Re: Hey Jeremy - P2 24p & 29.97 mixed timeline question

[Bret Williams] " I don't understand why you'd run your 24p footage through compressor"

I think I misunderstood and forgot that all of your 24p footage was HD. I thought you meant 24p SD as well. If I had 24p SD (which has pulldown), I'd only comfrom what was needed for the final timeline.

Sorry for this misunderstanding and forget what I said last time about removing pulldown (that was for 24p SD). Moving forward, your 24p is HD and your SD is 30p.

[Bret Williams] "We now have to also create DVCams of our pure 24p sequences. Any advice there?"

Do you have a Kona card? That will do it in real time. If not, you can drop a 23.98p HD movie into a custom created 23.98 DV timeline, you can choose to letterbox or not, and FCP will add the proper 3:2 pulldown on playout.

[Bret Williams] "Just run the final through compressor? Will it create the correct 2:3:2:3 pulldown for 29.97 DVCam?"

You can do that too, but you have to setup Compressor correctly to add the 3:2 interlaced pulldown.

If you have a pure 23.98 sequence, you can still make a DVD of that, or use the two methods descibed above. If you need to mix 24p HD and 30p SD, I'd put everything in a 720p60 timeline, and then make a 29.97 DVD, and a downconverted SD tape.

Jeremy