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Let’s talk about mice teeth

Aug 12, 2008 at 4:39 pm in broadcast, digital video news by Josh Mellicker · 6 Comments »

We have had a lot of questions on our forums about interlaced video, so I thought I would write a series of articles to clear everything up once and for all!

Where did interlacing come from?

Back in the day, when me and my buddies were developing broadcast television, we were going to model it on film, which took a sequence of photos of reality, so, if a blue circle was moving from left to right, two consecutive frames  [read more →]

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How do I capture and edit "24 fps" video in FCP?

Jul 18, 2005 at 4:16 am in editing, film by · 2 Comments »

There are several formats of video people call “24p”:

  1. true 24p
    To capture this, you’ll have to create special capture and sequence presets. But it’s a very rare format.
  2. 23.976
    This is more a much more common frame rate. Use the appropriate capture and sequence preset. (Note: FCP calls 23.976 “23.98″ for some odd reason).
  3. 24p with pulldown (actually 29.97 fps, aka 59.94 fields/sec, aka “60i”)
    Capture and edit using 60i presets.
  4. 24p “advanced” (2:3:3:2 cadence – actually 29.97 fps, aka 59.94 fields/sec, aka “60i”)
    Use the capture  [read more →]