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adobegurl
07-03-2005, 11:59 AM
Hello People,
Thanks so much for participating in this informative community. Warning-- I have done a couple of stupid things in shooting my first feature film. OK-- that's out of the way! I have been searching your forum for advice, but haven't been able to find the specific enough answers to my questions so here they are. Please feel free to email me as well.

1) I am a director and first planned to add widescreen in post. I shot most of this footage leaving myself room to add the black bars afterwards. Half way thru, I decided to just letterbox it. I am editing with Adobe 6.5. Do I work in widescreen mode or Standard? What are the ramifications of each? How do I make allowances for each format I've shot with in either mode? Does this affect capturing footage?

2) Last night I started batch capturing as I normally do without thinking, duh, I probably have to do something different since this is 24p. The program allows you to select 24, 25 or 30 fps. I stayed with the standard 30. Should I have chosen 24? Is that why the sound is all hiccupy? Do I have to recapture everything? What do I do now before capturing from my other 20 hours of footage?

Specs: I shot on the 100A and 100 in 24P mode. I am cutting on Adobe Premiere 6.5 . This is a school thesis that needs to have a rough assembly by the end of the week. I would prefer to keep using Premiere.

Help!

Tanks,
Film Girl :lipsrseal :laugh: :huh:

soarprod
07-04-2005, 01:00 AM
Hey film Girl, What did you shoot? 24p normal or advanced? ie. F5 or F6 on the back of the camera - 24p normal should be fine on a 60i/30 fps timeline. 24p advanced only can be edited with premiere pro 1.5. You probably want to edit in 4x3/standard - it will play back fine on most TV's and you can always stretch it to fill widescreen later if you wish. How powerful is your computer? This may be why the audio is skipping.