Shot Canon Vixia HV40 at 24 but it's coming in at 29.97

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Shot Canon Vixia HV40 at 24 but it's coming in at 29.97

I have shot and brought footage in with this camera before but haven't done so in 6 mths maybe. For some reason, I can't get it to come in correctly and have tried restarting the computer, a different computer, selecting the settings again, double checking that I shot in 24 etc. It's coming in at HDV 1080i60 and 29.97fps. I have the easy setup set to 23.98fps. I'm on FCP 6 and have loaded from this camera in this before. Has anyone come across this? Any suggestions? Thanks.

Posted on Sep 24, 2012 10:13 AM

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Meg The Dog

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Sep 24, 2012 10:21 AM in response to budiliscious

The camera can be set to record HDVPF24 which is recorded at 1080i with a visual appearance of 24 fps, or HDV24F which records at true native 24P (23.98).

From the manual:

Is it possible your material was recorded with the PF24 setting, which will appear as 1080i60 on ingest?

MtD

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budiliscious Author

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Sep 24, 2012 12:36 PM in response to Meg The Dog

I went back and looked at my recording settings. I must have switched it by accident at some point to the HDV24 setting. So I guess I need to switch it to HDV24F in order to get it back to recording and digitizing at 23.98 as opposed to 29.97, right?

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Meg The Dog

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Sep 24, 2012 2:12 PM in response to budiliscious

Yes. Changing your setting will not affect your existing recordings, so you will need to reshoot if the 24fps is important to you.

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