60i...where is it?

treborx

treborx

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I would like to do some slow motion testing with my DVX100a, and I've been reading that shooting it in 60i at 1/120 shutter speed and slowing it down 40% in fcp would give best my best results. However where is this 60i rate setting? My choices in advance mode are...off, 30p, 24p and 24p (adv). For the life of me i can't find it and it's driving me mad! Please help.........!!!!

Thanks
Rob
 
Look at the little black thumbwheel on the left-hand side of the back of the camera, next to the battery port. This is the scene file selector. If you have left the camera on factory-settings, then positions F1, F2, F3 and F4 are all 60i. F5 is 24P and F6 is 24PA.

You should see a readout in the lcd or viewfinder that changes with each turn of the thumbwheel; if you see "60i," you're golden. And, you should immediately notice that the look of the lcd image changes noticeably, from beautiful gorgeous filmic progressive, to nasty liney soap-opera-grade interlaced.

If your factory settings have been overwritten, then follow the instructions on page 37 of the manual, to create a scene file with the interlace settings you want.
 
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JACK POT!!! Thanks a trillion guys! I've owned this camera for over two years and made three movies on it and never had a clue. Boy do I feel like a horses behind!!!!
I really should of came here a long time ago or atleast opened the owners manual.......Nah I should of just came here!!

Thanks again!
Rob
 
Sad Max said:
, from beautiful gorgeous filmic progressive, to nasty liney soap-opera-grade interlaced.

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some us like that nasty video look (sometimes) better than the old out of fashion progressive look...
 
Ogrus said:
some us like that nasty video look (sometimes) better than the old out of fashion progressive look...
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Actually, in terms of video cameras, it's interlaced that's old and out of fashion. :thumbup:
 
Sad Max said:
Burn Him!

BURN HIM!

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Actually some clients need interlaced. Working for Science Central news inc, they demand a strict 60i @ 1/60th a second shutter, with NDF timecode.

any deviation and they cant use the footage. granted i like 24p, but you shoot what the people paying you want.
 
Heh, I just did a shoot for SciCentral too. ... That was fun, tracking down a 60i (NTSC) camera over here. We ended up having to buy a, eh, "multisystem camera" :lipsrseal


- Mikko
 
TimurCivan said:
Actually some clients need interlaced. Working for Science Central news inc, they demand a strict 60i @ 1/60th a second shutter, with NDF timecode.

any deviation and they cant use the footage. granted i like 24p, but you shoot what the people paying you want.
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Sure, we deliver what the client pays for.

I was mostly joking about the subjective beauty of the one, vs the objective nasty-ass ugliness of the other.
 
TimurCivan said:
Actually some clients need interlaced. Working for Science Central news inc, they demand a strict 60i @ 1/60th a second shutter, with NDF timecode.

any deviation and they cant use the footage. granted i like 24p, but you shoot what the people paying you want.
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I filmed some rugby games and chose to go interlaced, mainly because I didn't want to have to deal with manual focus, but I also assumed that having more frames couldn't hurt.
 
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Here's what I am trying to do: capture the impact of a golf club to the ball in super slo mo. Any ideas? I have followed these instructions and still can not locate 60i...I have 30p but no 60i. Do I need to locate and/or change interlacing first...and how the heck do I do that? Thanks.
 
mikkowilson said:
Heh, I just did a shoot for SciCentral too. ... That was fun, tracking down a 60i (NTSC) camera over here. We ended up having to buy a, eh, "multisystem camera" :lipsrseal


- Mikko
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SWEET!!!

Did you work for Jim Eagen? or Gary?
 
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