capturing 30p with FCP 3?

[Guest jake richards]

anyone know if FCP 3 can capture 30P?

 

i have been capturing some clips i shot in 30P, but they are being

captured at 29.97

 

i keep setting the capture fps at 30p, but the clips still come in

at 29.97.

 

does fcp 3 not allow 30 fps for capturing?

 

also, are my clips still progressive?

 

or is fcp changing them to interlaced?

 

thanks,

 

jake

[drew_town]

FCP can't capture 30p. I've run into this problem before. I just know that whatever you do it just won't capture 30p. If you figure out what's up with this please post it so I'll know too. If I had to guess I'd say that FCP converts it to 29.97 but your footage still looks prog. But I don't know for sure. I just know you have MAJOR problems when you setup your sequences for 30p with 29.97 footage. You get a lot of drop frames.

[Jan Crittenden]

Jake asked:

 

i have been capturing some clips i shot in 30P, but they are being

captured at 29.97

 

 

This is approriate. 29>97 is what the video is being recorded at on the the camera.

 

 

>i keep setting the capture fps at 30p, but the clips still come in

at 29.97.

 

Thi is because in Standard Definition there is no such thing as 30P. We call it 30P capture, split the frame into 2 fields and then record at 29.97. 30P recording is only possible in the HD domain. But don't worry about it.

 

The point is that the look of the video that has been captured in the camera at 30P will have that same look when edited in FCP3. Just import and be happy.

 

>does fcp 3 not allow 30 fps for capturing?

 

Yes it does, it is called 29.97.

 

>also, are my clips still progressive?

 

If you look at your footage and you freeze a frame, it is very clearly a progressive frame, so yes your images still have the higher quality of a progressive capture.

 

or is fcp changing them to interlaced?

 

This happened in the camera in order to record them the frame was split into two fields. AA BB CC DD. But the capture was A B C D, 480 X720 and then split.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Jan

[Phil Rhodes]

Oh, you guys really do have the most fun with that, don't you?

 

Chortle,

 

Phil

[drew_town]

That's what I thought Jan. I think camera manufacturers need to be clearer on this. It makes since that it's a "NTSC" camera so you're thinking 29.97 but when they blatently flash 30p in the manual and on the website it gets jumbled up. And yes we really have the most fun with this stuff. Work with what you have.

 

AT

[Guest jake richards]

ok, thanks.

 

the footage looks good, but i was worred that for some reason the progressive

image quality was not being captured.