Sequence settings

[aleebee156]

I am leaving on Friday morning for a snowboarding road trip and we are filming a documentary on it with my DVX-100B. I have been trying to figure out what settings i want to film in, 24p, 24pa, 30p, or 60i and could use some help.

I will definitly need slow motion but only for the action shots of actual snowboarding. Can i mix for example 24p and 60i footage on the same sequence? or 30p and 60i and so on?

I have been reading Barry Greens book and when he says to put 60i footage into a 24p timeline for slow motion, does that mean that i set my sequence to 23.98fps or 24fps? i was getting confused last night while on FCP. I want my project to be very film like and would like to experiment with progressive video but also need good smooth slow motion, as slow as i can get it. I just want to make sure that if i film both 60i and progressive video that i will be able to edit them on the same sequence. Everytime that i put different footage onto a sequence FCP asks me if i want to conform my sequence to match the clip settings, should i just say no and then i will be able to have whatever footage i want on whatever sequence settings i want?

and if i film 24p, 24pa, or 30p what is the best project/sequence settings to edit those frame rates? I will be filiming in standard 4:3.

I know there is alot of different stuff in here, sory if it's confusing and not clear, but i could use the help.

Chris:dankk2:

[Alex H.]

Shoot 24pA if that's what you're going for. And edit at 23.98. (60i and 30P both edit in a 29.97 project.)

For the slow-mo stuff, you can do one of two things:

Shoot 30P and use Cinema Tools to conform it to 23.98 (this will slow it down beautifully).
Shoot 60i as Barry recommends and create your slow-mo from that using a program like Twixtor.

[aleebee156]

Thanks, would you recommend shooting sqeeze mode in 24pa? or is that not a good idea? i shot 60i with sqeeze mode and got terrible results. Maybe because it's interlaced, will progressive video be the same?

[aleebee156]

also, what about my scene file? should it be THIN, MID, or THICK with progressive video?

[Alex H.]

Shoot squeeze, THIN. Squeeze in 60i does not yield favorable results. Squeeze in 24p is fantastic.