GETTING THE BEST SLOW-MOTION OUT OF DVX100B and FINAL CUT

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Hi everyone,
ok so here is my question......I am shooting an offroad video this year and I will be using 2 DVX100B's for the production, I would like to use some slow motion shots in the production.....
Im wondering what the best way is to get the cleanest slow-motion out of this camera and Final Cut Pro 6...
I have heard that shooting the camera in 60i mode at 1/120 shutter is the best camera settings, any suggestions??? and also techniques in FCP that help??.
most of the project will be shot in 24fps at 1/50shutter so it will be looking very filmlike, i would like to get the slow motion to look filmlike two...
this footage will be brought into a 24fps sequence shot in Anamorphic widescreen and "squeez mode"...

any help would be great guys!, i know there is alot of knowledgable people on here.

Thanks!
Matt Rodgers
Director- "from the dirt" coming next October from DirtAlliance Films
 
I've never shot slow motion footage (yet), but it seems if you want really clean looking slo-mo to shoot at the highest shutter speed for the frame rate - then retime the footage in Motion 3 or Compressor (which come with FCP 6). The new retiming effects use optical retiming techniques from Shake.

By shooting at the highest shutter it would seem that your footage would be clearer so when you slowed it down it wouldn't look so blurry...
 
60i + 1/120 shutter + some kind of post-solution (JES Deinterlacer, After Effects, Twixtor, Fields Kit, Motion w/ Optical Flow enabled, etc.) seems to be your best bet. JES Deinterlacer is nice because it's free. You basically import your 60i clip, tell it to deinterlace with "double movie duration," and then let it run. Afterwards, you can conform it to 23.98fps with Cinema Tools and throw it on a 24p timeline.
 
Oedipax said:
60i + 1/120 shutter + some kind of post-solution (JES Deinterlacer, After Effects, Twixtor, Fields Kit, Motion w/ Optical Flow enabled, etc.) seems to be your best bet. JES Deinterlacer is nice because it's free. You basically import your 60i clip, tell it to deinterlace with "double movie duration," and then let it run. Afterwards, you can conform it to 23.98fps with Cinema Tools and throw it on a 24p timeline.
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I have used this technique with motion to deinterlace and it looked very acceptable. I would like to try JES Deinterlacer though. Sounds way easier! Go this route. Do some test footage and you'll be amazed at how good it can look.
 
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