24pa vs 24p

Neither is better, they are for different purposes.

24pA - For shooting, editing, and outputting pure 24p, usually to a 24p DVD or film out.

24p - For shooting 24p to incorporate in a 60i project or for immediate broadcast.
 
Note: you can easily edit in native 24p and output to 60i, even for immediate broadcast. If your frame rate is 24p and you're not mixing it with any other frame rate, you should edit in 24p if you can.
 
One more question ,
when shooting in 24p what is the best shutter speed when you are going to edit it in final cut express hd and put it to dvd ?
I set it high , too much shutter.
I set it low , its too blurry.
What speed do I use to get a good cinematic look without it shuttering too much?
 
The video equivalent of a standard film shutter speed is 1/48. But as for "best," it's all about artistic desire. I, personally, rather like the look 1/120 gives, but it's not appropriate for everything.
 
Hey guy's. I'm scratching my head wondering why the low budget film "Iraq in Fragments" looks infinitely better than the low budget, but studio financed film "November." Is it just me? November was even shot, i believe, with the later version of the dvx 100.
 
November was the original DVX100. Can't say as why one is better than the other though, but to call "November" a studio-financed film would be kind of stretching it; it was made by InDigEnt on a budget of $250,000.
 
You're correct. November was used on the original dvx. But Iraq in Fragments was shot in the worse of conditions using only available light. Could it be how that documentary was finished (how was it finished? on hd?)?
 
The trailers for Iraq... are in HD. Are you sure it was shot with a DVX? I also watched the trailer for November and I must be doing something wrong! My footage looks nowhere near as sharp as either of those. Is it all done in post? I'm also wondering if they made the online trailers look sharper by downsizing them and outputting them to an HD codec. I've fiddled around with unsharp mask (just like in Photoshop) but it doesn't do much. Has anyone seen the actual movies? Are they as sharp as the trailers?
 
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