FCPX change project frame rate?

[netslacker]

I'm nearly 10 hours into a video edit job of a video I'm putting together for Christmas (of course). However, on export, I see the frame rate is 23.97. The video was all shot at 29.97 (all of it, not a stitch at 23.97). I'm worried about judder in the final video if I keep the project at 23.97fps. I also have no clue why the project frame rate is 23.97 as I thought the project settings were set by the first clip. Since I only have 29.97 fps footage I wasn't thinking I needed to do anything there and just went on my merry way. Here we are, 10 hours later, and the wrong frame rate is set in the project.

Reading online tells me this isn't a trivial change as all the edits will have timing issues now if I go through the effort of changing to 29.97.

Any advice for me? I'm new to FCPX by about a week and I really don't want to start again (not to mention I'm running out of time). Also, any idea why the project was set to a different frame rate?

Thanks.

 

[casperes1996]

Click on your project in the media browser, click modify in the inspector and set the correct framerate. You can always go back if this causes timing issues, but I would think Final Cut would do the right thing. It usually does.

I think one of the later updates made it so that the automatic settings based on clip doesn't register framerate, but only resolution or something - not quite sure. Always set it all manually myself

 

[netslacker]

So, rather than modifying the existing 24fps project I created a new 30fps project then copy/pasted the timeline into the new project. This worked, for the most part. There were just a handful of synchronized clips where the audio and video sync were no longer aligned and only a couple of transitions that needed to be adjusted back a tad. For the most part, the short clips were fine (or the variation was not noticeable to me) so, I left them alone.

<snip>... Always set it all manually myself

Yeah, lesson learned. I'll be more aware of it going forward. This was only my second project in FCPX and my first week of owning the software. Now I know for future projects...