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Where is Cinema Tools' functionality?

Hi There,

I use Cinema Tools (a very old version) to routinely conform 23.976fps video to 24fps video. It won't run under Lion anymore, so I need a new solution. Now that Cinema Tools appears to be gone in FCPX, is there a function in FCPX that will conform video in the same way without re-rendering? Re-rendering can not happen. I'm looking for a direct feature port between Cinema Tools' "conform" command and the latest FC product.

Thanks for your help if you happen to know.

6-Core (Westmere) 3.33, 16GB, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jan 25, 2012 6:05 PM

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Ian R. Brown

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Posted on Jan 26, 2012 1:36 AM

I don't know what you mean by "without re-rendering" but the way to conform clips is to select them in the timeline, click the Retiming button and select Conform Speed.

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Daniel Pinder Author

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Jan 26, 2012 8:29 PM in response to Pancenter

Pancenter wrote:

Daniel, I understand the problem, I'm also a composer/editor.

I use both Logic (Mac) and Nuendo.(Win7-PC)

I think your advice is solid. Likely staying on SL for as long as possible.

Aug 9, 2012 3:56 PM in response to Daniel Pinder

you can always export a image sequence and then use quicktime pro to create a movie out of the image sequence defining the new frame rate. Cumbersome but works. Usually, the image sequence codec will match the original quicktime codec so I don't think there's any recompression going on unless it's a codec that doesn't keep each frame discrete.

Daniel Pinder Author

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Aug 9, 2012 4:12 PM in response to Michael Grenadier

In actual fact, this problem was completely solved by Digital Rebellion's Pro Media Tools' QT Edit app.

Where is Cinema Tools' functionality?