Apple Color does not accept 24p vids?
by Ivan Lee Barcellos
on
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:32:32 pm
Hey guys, I'm new here...
I'm really new in Color, but I'm familiar with FCP for some time.
Well, when I send my timeline from FCP to Color, all I get are red boxes in the timeline. What's happening?
My workflow: Lumix GH1, AVHCD to .MOV with Neoscene (pulldown removal), then I edit on FCP in 23.976 fps.
But when I use Compressor instead of Neoscene, it works with Color, but I get 29.98fps vids instead of 23.98
So Color does not support 24 frames per second? or is it a codec problem?
Re: Apple Color does not accept 24p vids? by Joseph Owens on Nov 2, 2009 at 5:05:15 pm
Codec problem.
COLOR adheres to the frame rate embedded in the XML created on the "Send To..." instruction.
COLOR certainly supports 24 fps, but usually in dpx/cin workflow. A lot of consumer codecs try to simplify the language for the laity so they don't get confused by "24", 23.98, 23.9759, and so on, as all editable video versions of "24" are really 23.9759 except for the pure cinema 24.000 cameras, which require different recording strategies, and then causes problems with audio sync if using double system workflow. And then there are some consumer codecs which are only compatible with proprietary editing applications that keep all the frame rates hidden (usually Long-GOP based). Some of these are totally incompatible with COLOR, and FCP for that matter. My daughter has hit me with formats from her cellphone which have all the characteristics of mp3 -- wandering sync mostly because of i-frame compression strategy that does not translate except within its own little world.
