Deliver Frame Rate Issue

I have graded a 1080i 29.97 music video using ProRes transcoded files from AVCHD camera originals. All ProRes source files are 1080i @ 29.97fps. Grading went very well but when setting up the Deliver Page for export, the only frame rate options are 23.976 or 24. Am I missing something with the export frame rate? I need to export a ProRes master file at 29.97fps. Thanks for clues in advance!

Perry Trest
POSTDIGITAL, Inc.

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Blackmagic REALLY needs to change that..
There is no logical explanation why one should be locked into a fps speed.
In Scratch it just plays and renders on whatever you set it, and Smoke even has a re-conform feature that lets you change the speed and adjust all the editing.
Ia m not asking for something like that, but we need to be able to change the speed, or at least have an automatic rebuild function.
Please :)

A slice of color...

Resolve 9.0.4 OSX 10.8.2

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Had a similar issue on a 2 hour doc full of mixed frame rate media. Imported Final Cut 7 XML. The 29.97 sequence was interpreted as 23.98 in resolve. I assumed it was simply removing the pulldown so I didn't alter the sequence. Render to 29.97 was grayed out.

We were pressed for time and rather than chance it with colortrace, I used cinema tools to change the frame rate of the rendered output from resolve.

Everything seems to be fine. Looks good and plays back in sync. Was that a bad idea? Am I unreasonably mistrustful of colortrace?

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OSX 10.8
Resolve 9

Colortrace has not failed me yet.

Apple COLOR was like this with the initial project settings framerate. Frankly I don't think about it all that much as about 99.9% of all projects are XML/AAF flow -- settings automatic.

That you do ned to set an initial framerate I think stems from Resolve's origins as a tape-to-tape and dpx processor, where on the one hand, the framerate was a hardware issue, and dpx file sequences have no intrinsic framerate, like film. Its just a frame. How many of them you want to display per second is up to you.

jPo

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