Synchronizing in final cut pro, Working in final cut pro, Setting the editing timebase for sequences – Apple Cinema Tools 4 User Manual
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Synchronizing in Final Cut Pro
If you don’t synchronize your sound and picture onto tape via the telecine transfer, they
are captured into Final Cut Pro as separate audio and video clips. You can then synchronize
them in Final Cut Pro, using the clapper board shots. See
information. After you synchronize two or more clips, you can link them together as one
clip, using the Final Cut Pro merged clips feature. See
Synchronizing Separately Captured
and the Final Cut Pro documentation for more information.
Working in Final Cut Pro
Decisions you make regarding the telecine transfer and how you work with audio affect
how you use Final Cut Pro during the editing process.
Setting the Editing Timebase for Sequences
In Final Cut Pro, you must set the editing timebase for sequences to match the frame rate
of the captured clips.
Important:
Do not place clips into a sequence if the clips and sequence have different
frame rates. If you do, the resulting film list is likely to be inaccurate. For example, if you
want to edit at 24 fps, make sure your clips’ frame rates are all set at 24 fps (either by
using the Reverse Telecine feature or the Conform feature).
See
About Easy Setups and Setting the Editing Timebase
documentation for details about setting the editing timebase for sequences.
Outputting to Videotape When Editing at 24 fps
One of the benefits of editing at 24 fps is that you get a one-to-one relationship between
the film and video frames, allowing for very accurate cut lists. A drawback is that you
need a 24p VTR to directly record video as 24 fps—you cannot easily record the video
on standard NTSC or PAL video equipment. This can be a problem if you want to record
a videotape of the edited project, either to show others or to give the negative cutter a
visual reference to use along with the cut list, but there are solutions:
• If you’re working with NTSC video: You can use the pull-down insertion feature in
Final Cut Pro to apply a pull-down pattern to the video, thus outputting it at 29.97 fps.
See
Pull-Down Patterns You Can Apply to 23.98 fps Video
for details. There are also
third-party cards and applications that can perform a 3:2 pull-down on the video,
allowing it to run at the NTSC 29.97 fps rate.
• If you’re working with PAL video: If you know that you will want to record a videotape
when finished, it’s easiest to edit at 25 fps (with the film having been sped up to maintain
the one-to-one relationship).
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Chapter 2
Before You Begin Your Film Project