Custom Framerates No Longer Available???

But then...how do I edit? Somehow I need to get the film into Final Cut at the proper frame rate.

I'm scratching my head over these answers. What good is Compressor? I don't want to change the frame rate—and the movie is already a Quick Time Movie and editable, but it was scanned at the proper original camera speed of 18fps. I don't want to "retime" it because then it will go slower. It goes at the correct "speed" now, but because Final Cut requires it to be imported according to given frame rates, it is either automatically changed to whatever it wants, or I change it; either way it's not good.

Maybe my writing is poor. I don't want to convert this video to a different frame rate, hence I see no purpose in using Compressor. I want to edit it as it is, in its original state of 18fps.

Ech. I DID convert it to 24fps—and like I said, Final Cut then STEP PRINTS it, duplicating every 3rd frame. THAT is NO GOOD. It creates a stutter.

I do have Compressor, but... what do you mean sophisticated frame rates? What are you suggesting to do that might keep the movie running at the same speed (it's a 5 minute movie and it should continue to be a 5 minute movie) without duplicating frames?

Hmmm. I really must work on my technical writing skills... OK, let me try this again:

I have a movie that ran at 18fps.

I had it scanned at 18fps.

Now I want to edit it... AT 18FPS.

But

Final Cut will not let me do that. Final Cut REQUIRES that either I choose one of six frame rates (NONE of which are 18fps), OR if I let it default to "Set based on first video clip", FINAL CUT converts the movie from 18fps to 23.98fps.

Which I do NOT want.

I want to STOP any frame-rate conversion by Final Cut!

Now... there are people who professionally restore early cinema. In early cinema, you run into all sorts of odd frame rates, and except for an experiment or two by Edison, NONE OF THEM ARE ABOVE about 20fps. You have 12.5fps (some early Max Linder movies); most of Melies' films run around 14fps. I think Keaton ran his movies between 18fps and 20fps.

SO, if Final Cut "Pro" cannot accommodate these frame rates, then it is USELESS as a "professional" editing tool for real professionals.

No?

So, any of you have a "work around" for this?

C'mon Apple, whatsa' matta' yo?

I answered those questions in my post. There are hundreds of interesting and important films from 1896 through the 1920s that many of us actually enjoy watching, and analyzing for the sake of history. People like David Shepard, Serge Bromberg, Eric Lange, Ben Model, companies like Kino-Lorber, Flicker Alley and Criterion, and many, many others have put great efforts into restoring such movies.

In this case, I have a private film made at 18fps. I went ahead and edited it at 23.98fps, put it on a blu-ray, and I can show it. However, it would look better if I could re-edit it at 18fps.

SO...If a person is doing time-consuming film-restoration, that person will need certain tools. I suppose I'll have to correspond with a couple of them and find out what they use, since Final Cut appears to be useless for this.