Apple Final Cut Pro HD (4.5): New Features - Manual (Page 74)

74 Chapter 4 Editing Film With Final Cut Pro in a PAL Environment
The 25 fps EDL Export for Film Workflow
The basic steps involved in this workflow are outlined below. Refer to the Final Cut Pro
and Cinema Tools documentation if you need more information about certain
procedures mentioned here.
Step 1: Film at 24 fps and transfer to PAL video
Transfer your 24 fps film to 25 fps PAL video. The film is sped up to 25 fps in the
telecine transfer.
Step 2: Use Cinema Tools to generate a batch capture list for Final Cut Pro
This is an optional step, but if you have a telecine log from a scene-and-take transfer,
using Cinema Tools to create the batch capture list makes it easy to automatically
capture clips with the cuts that were chosen in the scene-and-take transfer. It would be
more time consuming to find and capture the clips manually with Final Cut Pro.
Step 3: In Final Cut Pro, choose the Easy Setup called DV PAL 24 @ 25
If you don’t see the DV PAL 24 @ 25 Easy Setup in the pop-menu in the Easy Setup
dialog, choose Show All. This Easy Setup sets the sequence preset editing timebase to
24 fps, while the sequence source timecode is tracked as 25 fps. (This is called having a
24 @ 25 source timecode rate.) It also lets you import your 25 fps batch capture list and
capture at 25 fps.
Note: The DV PAL 24 @ 25 Easy Setup uses the DV PAL 48 kHz - 24 @ 25 sequence
preset. If you are not using DV video, you can create a custom Easy Setup by editing
the DV PAL 24 @ 25 Easy Setup. Customizing the preset allows you to:
• Capture a format other than DV
• Incorporate a custom sequence preset that has an editing timebase of 24 fps and a
timecode rate of 25 @ 25
Step 4: Capture the PAL video with Final Cut Pro
The DV PAL 24 @ 25 Easy Setup that you chose in the previous step ensures that you
capture your video at its PAL frame rate of 25 fps even though the editing timebase is
set to 24 fps.
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