When MC adds a motion adapter, it isn't actually adding 3:2 pulldown right? It's just a 125% Motion Effect?
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Mark Spano <cutandcover@...> wrote:
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> You have it, although the way I read it, you may be adding (or being forced
> to add) multiple redundant steps. If this were my show, I would have just
> cut everything into a master 59.94i sequence. Not sure why there's bouncing
> back and forth between 23.98p and 59.94i sequences, when MC can handle the
> 23.98 material perfectly fine in the 59.94i sequence using motion adapters.
> But anyway, once you have everything in your master 59.94i sequence, yes,
> the 23.98 sections will have motion adapters added to them automatically.
> You can definitely mixdown those sections, but to avoid clutter and
> confusion, I usually just render. Rendering the sequence bakes in the
> motion adapters - you then in effect have an entirely 59.94i sequence, and
> any file outputs can be done using QT ref or same-as-source (as every
> referenced file is now either a natively 59.94i video file or a rendered
> (baked in) 59.94i file). Avoiding mixing down is just a preference for me
> at this stage, since it makes things much easier when the inevitable last
> minute note comes down and we've got to change something. Then I don't have
> to remove a mixdown and revert to a previous sequence to make that happen.
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> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:27 PM, John Moore <bigfish@...> wrote:
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> > So I'm doing an hour special that has a few sketches shot on Red, oh joy,
> > at 23.98. For the studio shoot of the main show it is all 59.94. We took
> > the sketches and cut them into a 59.94 sequence to build the studio
> > playback reel. The offline is being done with the line cut and isos and
> > the playback reel. I haven't had to deal much with mix and match but I
> > figure I will color correct the sketches in their native format timelines
> > and then when I get the final online sequence I will eye match and cut in
> > the 23.98 sequences into the 59.94 final timeline. Avid will add the
> > appropriate motion adapter and voila away we go. Am I missing something
> > here? Will I need to do video mixdowns of the 23.98 sequences to output to
> > tape or file. I'm delivering a file as primary and tape as backup. I seem
> > to have read that the mixdown will be required for a QT ref movie do to the
> > differing frame rates. Usually I like to export a QT ref for multiple audio
> > channels and use QT Pro to make the final file. This has worked well even
> > when I had to go to ProRes files. There is the option to export an XDCam
> > file which would require that fake disk folder thingy and an export to
> > device IIRC. Can someone shed some more light on the need for a video
> > mixdown of the 23.98 sections or do I have to mixdown the entire show? TIA
> >
> > John Moore
> >
> > Barking Trout Productions
> >
> > Studio City, CA
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> > bigfish@...
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