Music Video shot at 50 fps - convert to 24?

[Sean Devaney]

Hello everybody,

I apologize in advance for the rambling nature of the question, but I haven't found a way to succinctly put it quite yet.

I have footage shot with the red for a music video at 50fps with a timeline base of 23.98. The idea was to give us the option of ramping the speed at certain points while maintaining a crisp look.

I am going to be going to a scratch system in the end, but editing quarter res files from Redrushes in final cut pro on a macbook pro laptop to create the EDL.

However, my aim is to edit most of the footage in real time, making it appear as if it was shot at 24fps. Is there any way of ingesting the footage so changing the speed (And another render) in final cut isn't required? I tried entering it into a timeline with a framerate of 50, but it plays back at the same speed as it does on the 23.98 timeline (i'm guessing this is the case because the footage specs are that it has a framerate of 23.98?)

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks so much.

-Sean

 

[Uli Plank]

You ca change the speed in CT, but not on ingest.

 

[Sean Devaney]

CT=cinema tools? Thanks very much. I am wondering though, will that screw up the footage so that I can't do an online with the final EDL?

 

[Tarek S. Kandil]

aftereffects has a nice timewarp feature where you can time things based on frame count.

I usually shoot in as high a frame rate i can, and then start frame 0-48 in 2 seconds then frame 49-100 let's say over a different amount of time.... etc...

it limits to 5000 frames or i'm messing up.

 

[Uli Plank]

CT=cinema tools? Thanks very much. I am wondering though, will that screw up the footage so that I can't do an online with the final EDL?

Yes, Cinema Tools. I never tried that, but I dount it will work with native footage.

I'd convert to high quality (Uncompressed or PreRes HQ) and slow that down.