Comments on: How to convert Canon 5dmk2 footage from 30p to 24p

By: Joey Julius

Joey Julius — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:48:27 +0000

In compressor… the 24p conversion setting will not accept a 30p timecode…
I.E. 04:43:29 30p from fcp translates to 04:44:05 in 24p compressor setting.
What to do?

By: Patrick O'Donnell

Patrick O'Donnell — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:08:48 +0000

For those of you with syncing issues, make sure that you are using the length of time of the original audio track placed in the new 24p sequence you’ve made – if you use the length from the original 30p sequence, it will be out of sync.

By: pbloom

pbloom — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:40:54 +0000

mixing is hell. pick one, convert the rest to the majority is best suggestion…

By: edwardfilms

edwardfilms — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:13:53 +0000

Hi Philip, Great blog, really useful posts as always.

If I am mixing 30fps and 25fps footage from the 5dMK2, would you recommend editing a mute timeline with both in and then conforming the whole timeline to 25 fps, or cutting a 30fps timeline, corforming that to 25fps and then adding that footage to the 25fps timeline?

Thanks in advance,

By: Karianne

Karianne — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:43:38 +0000

Hi Tulaga! Did mpegstream work out well? No regrets later? I tried it now, after getting clips 2-3 frames out of sync using Philip’s way. And mpegstream looks good. Where there any problems later?

By: Tulaga Whitcombe

Tulaga Whitcombe — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:58:36 +0000

I accidentally recorded 60p when it was supposed to be 24p so I did a test to convert the 60p footage to 24p using mpegstreamclip and surprisingly I think it worked. Haven’t tried 30p to 24p though. Maybe it works for that too…

Open footage in MpegStreamClip.

Export to Quicktime

Choose Apple DVCPRO HD 720p60 for compression (must have final cut installed for this option to show up)

Slide quality to 100%

Sound to Uncompressed

Frame Rate: type 23.976 in the box (most important part)

Frame size “HDTV 720p”

uncheck Interlaced Scaling

uncheck Deinterlace Video

And hit “Make Movie”

And voila! should be 24p now

By: john paget

john paget — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:36:00 +0000

I followed these steps, but Compressor did not produce a final file that was the exact duration I set it for. The end result was about 12 frames short of the duration I specifically asked for, and so still out of sync. Wonder what I did wrong.

By: Rod Blackhurst

Rod Blackhurst — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:40:47 +0000

I’ve done exactly what is mentioned in your video tutorial as well as what is written. Compressor immediately changes the duration I’ve entered as soon as it starts rendering. No matter how many times I stop and start that it always changes it arbitrarily. But that doesn’t seem to be the issue because the sync is usually off by about 1-2 minutes at the end of the 20 minutes.

Perhaps I’m not using the correct link from the top of this blog. Could you re-post it in a reply so that I make sure I’m following your lead?

Cheers,

Rod

By: pbloom

pbloom — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:52:26 +0000

it should work spot on. Have you tried the updated version linked at top of this blog?

By: Rod Blackhurst

Rod Blackhurst — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:54:12 +0000

It should have been noted in the original post that this 30p to 24p conversion only works when there is no 100% accurate sound sync needed. Forget about using this method with any project that has dialogue sync.

I’ve spent several days trying to use Phillip’s method to convert a 23:01:22 short documentary and no matter what compression settings I use the dialogue goes out of sync after a minute or two.

If you’re just making a project that has visuals layered on top of an audio track, and can afford several seconds of ‘slipping’ then this method works.

Cheers,