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Offlining 24p in Apple’s Final Cut Express

The Setup

For the capture, you won’t even need Final Cut Pro. All you need is the IoHD (Kona 3), and the free VTR Exchange application that you can download from AJA’s webpage.

Setup the AJA Control Panel so that your primary input is set to 525i 23.98, and the secondary input is set to 1080sf 23.976 . This configuration will have the IoHD do a real time downconversion of your footage.

Now you are ready to capture the footage, so, make sure that you set the “Character” (supered output) to be on your VTR, so you can see the timecode of the footage you are digitizing. You want the burnt-in timecode at the bottom of the screen, because FCE doesn’t show you the timecode of the clips you are working with, so it’s the only way to keep track of the T/C of your clips. Also, you want to work in an anamorphic frame, so that when you go from FCE to FC5 or 6, you will be able to put supers in, and they will translate correctly when you conform for your online. You can make sure that your footage will be anamorphic by setting it in the AJA Control Panel.

You are now ready to digitize all your footage using the AJA VTR Exchange (AVE). I prefer using this method of capturing, as both the AVE and the IoHD support embedded SDI timecode.

Once digitized, we are ready to move onto editing, which the following movie will walk you through (click on the Play button at the lower left). The editing is easy; the hardest part is keeping track of the difference in running time between drop frame time code and non-drop:

So, as you can see, working in this method not only works, but also it works really well. Remember, Apple never said that you can’t edit in 24p in Final Cut Express, they just said that you can’t capture in it! This is a great way to not only save your clients money, but it also just gives them the tool they need to get you a 99.9% finished offline.

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