1) Make your project a matchback project. If it isn't, make a new project that is, and put your bins in it.
2) You need to create an alternate TC24 timecode count for all your source clips. Put them all in a new bin, and copy the start TC column using the Cmmand-D on Mac (Ctrl-D on PC), and select Alt TC 24.
1st big caveat here, the start TC of your standard def clips need to be actual coincidence points to the 23.976 HDcamSR tapes. If the clip in your 29.97 project used Non Drop TC, that would be at the start of any second (00 frames) If it is drop frame, you need to check, but for the most part, show masters that are done in drop frame, the only valid start TC coincidence points are the Hour the show starts at, and the 59 seconds before and after the hour (00 fame). Otherwise, due to the DF count dropping frame numbers, there are no other coincidence points.
2nd big caveat... Use ALT TC 24, not TC 24. I don't know why, but when using TC 24 the source timecodes didn't make it to EDL Manager. This happens on only some versions of MC/EDL Mgr.
Note: If your start timecodes are NOT coincidence points (editor started digitizing at any old timecode frame number.) You can work around this by loading the master clip into the Source Window, and creating a sub-clip that does start on a Coincidence Point. Then use the sub-clip to duplicate to Alt TC 24.
3) check your sequence, and display the Alt TC 24 count in any timecode display, to see if the 24 fps count is there. Wherever possible, remove match cuts and make your variable speed edits timewarps of a single speed throughout the edit. If you have to tweak speeds, just make sure you do a speed that encompasses all the footage you will need, and tweak it later in your 23.976 conform.
4) Launch EDL manager and set the source to Alt TC 24, and your Rec to 24. Turn off b-roll and optimize edit functions. They cause problems.
5) Use the Get sequence command to generate the EDL. Make sure all your edits have non zero timecode numbers in them, and save them. Do an EDL for every video layer you need in your sequence.
6) Close EDL manager, exit 29.97 project and create new 23.976 1080p project.
7) Make a new bin, and launch EDL manager.
8) In EDL manager load the 24 frame EDL you created in step 5 above. When the EDL manager asks you the frame rate of the EDL, tell it 24.
9) Use the create sequence command (Command M). EDL manager will ask what format the sequence should be, tell it 23.976/1080p. When it asks how to map audio choices, tell it what you want. If you are doing video only, tell it "don't map." This will take you back to the AVID.
10) The avid will ask what bin to save the sequence to, and when you pick one, will generate the sequence, and a 24 hour master clip for each of your souces in the EDL The clip name will be the same as the reel name. If you have multiplie video layers, geenrate sequences for all of them, and re-build your timeline.
11) delete all the master clips, and decompose your sequence.
Additional notes. If you have multiple sequences that generated multiple copies of the same sources, I suggest selecting all the clips representing the same sources and modify the source name to be the same before you delete and decompose.
Also, I suggest switching the format tab to NTSC 23.976 and digitizing a copy of your finished NTSC 29.97 sequence into the project. Make sure cadence is not set to none in "Film and 24P" settings. You can digitize from an NTSC master, and it will automatically remove fields, based upon the cadence setting. Since edited content won't have consisten pulldown it won't be pretty and you will have interlaced fields, but at least you have a reference for what your project should look like. This is important because the matchback method just described has an overall plus or minus 1 frame of accuracy, so you will need to slip some edits for correct sync and accuracy.
Easy-peasy ;-)
(I have been doing a lot of this lately, so it does work, even if it is convoluted. any questions, please tell me and I will elaborate.)
Dave Hogan
Burbank, CA
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "brucerees23" <brees.lists@...> wrote:
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> Hi everyone, I've been through the manual and maybe it's there but I can't find it.
>
> Can I take an old sequence (now offline) that was cut NTSC SD 29.97 and convert it to an HD 1080p 23.976 project? The original source material is HDCAM 23.976 and I'll be on a Symphony 3.5.4
>
> Is there an EDL/ALE route that I'll have to take or does the current state of the Avid software also some new kind of magic?
>
> I'm not infront of the system right now to test my options but appreciate starting in the right direction before the client walks in.
>
> Thanks!
> ~Bruce
>
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