Replacement for Cinema Tools?

Yes and maybe.

But you will want to spend several hours on the Adobe forums, caerfully researching and refining your decision to invest in CS5.5. Buying After Effects to use it as a frame rate convertor is silly.

bopgiesan

You could get Adobe CS5 for 50% off with your FCP serial number....

marysplacestudio wrote:

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does "conform" in Cinema Tools do? All I know is that it works. But I can't find another program that does it because I think they use different lingo. So what does it mean to conform a 60p file to 24p? And what is this process called in Adobe CS5 (which I have)? Sounds like it's different than merely converting.....

That's why you want to spend a few hours over at adobe.com's user forums. Search for "conform" and "change frame rate" in the Premiere and After Effects forums. don't post anything until you've done some research. The manusl for all Adobe apps are available online.

If I give you 10 seocnds of 24fps, you have 240 frames. If you need to fill 1o seconds in a 30fps sequence with that clip it will be 60 frames short. Conforming will fix that, one way or another. You combine frames, you add fields, you blend fields into frames. Lots of options. Cinema Tools sort of does that, kind of. But not really. Cinema Tools is designed mostly to handle telecined media (from film, not video) and allow it to be used easily in video projects.

Here's the section contents from the manual:

Working with Film and Cinema Tools

You can use Final Cut Pro with Cinema Tools to edit film and 24 fps-based projects.

This chapter covers the following:

• An Overview of the Film Editing Process
• About Using Cinema Tools with Final Cut Pro
• Creating a New Final Cut Pro Project
• Importing a Telecine Log to Create a Cinema Tools Database
• Batch Capturing Video from Tape
• Removing 3:2 Pull-Down or Conforming 25 fps PAL to 24 fps
• Synchronizing Clips with the Cinema Tools Database
• Editing Clips in Final Cut Pro
• Using Edge Code Overlays and Feet+Frame Rulers
• Opening Final Cut Pro Clips in Cinema Tools
• Exporting Film, Change, and Audio Lists

bogiesan

Has anyone been able to figure out why Cinema Tools crashes in Lion 10.7 (or 10.7.1 for that matter)? I run a dual boot with Leopard 10.5.8 luckily because Cinema Tools is invaluable!

But it's a major bummer to have to switch boot disks to be able to use it.

I agree, I have been using cinema tools for a long time converting 60fps to 24 and now there seems to be no simple replacement!!!!

Help please!

N

This is maddening. I need Cinema Tools' Conform feature, too, and there is no substitute. What Conform does is it changes a flag inside Quicktime to regard the FPS of any clip to be whatever you ask it to be. This is why it does its thing instantaneously. The other benefit is that if you conform a clip from 23.976 to 24fps, it tell the embedded audio to also be 1% faster, so that when you import it into any audio app, like Pro Tools, it does the correct video-to-film speed SRC.

Surely, there is another app that does this basic thing?!

The replacement is FCPX. You can set it conform your video to whatever framerate you want. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3685424

I cannot see a way (please tell me if I'm under-educated) to open a QT file in FCPX and simply change its frame rate without having to export the file to a new file, which is guaranteed to take at least several minutes for a 2000+00 reel.

However, I have found the actual true replacement:

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/promedia/

It's called QT Edit. 99 bucks. You want a simple answer to the question, here it is.

check this out, is the solution ive found...

https://truelove.zendesk.com/entries/126440-conforming-60fps-footage-to-25-24fps -using-apple-compressor

I keep my Cinema Tools - it still works - Mavericks :-). It's the only app left from FCS7 since I moved to FCPX.

When Cinema Tools not working anymore - next OSX maybe? - I start to worry.