Blending HPX 170 with Go Pro HD footage

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CJ Hord

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I recently purchased 2 Go Pro HD cameras for capturing off road racing footage. I have always shot 720p/24p with my HPX 170. My dilemna is the Go Pro can shoot in 720p with either 30 or 60 fps, what is the best way to blend the 2 together? I love the "film look" and would like to stay with 24p, but will I need to bump up to 720p/30p to get the two in the same timline? Is there a way to conform the Go Pro 30 fps in Cinema Tools to get it to 24p? I have read on Creative Cow that a lot of people aren't fond of the 30p look. I use FCP 6 for editing and have the entire FCS 2 suite. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chris
 
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shoot 60 p on the go pro and conform to whatever frame rate you like in cinema tools - i nearly always run 60p at 25p to get 40 % slo mo.

In FCP - Crush the mids and blacks for some contrast - bump the saturation up.
I use Magic bullet and often use the "multi gradient cool " setting

depending on how you set up you HVX that should get close to matching.

WIth slo moving drama matching may be more critical - but with my work no one even knows when i go from a tripod / heli hvx shot to an onboard / helmet GO pro hd shot - and the viewer is probably subconsciously ecpecting something different as the angles are so radically differnt.

Its when you go from a similar angle to another similar one that matching is more critical.
 
Thanks Reflex. I have read you can use MPEG Streamclip or JES Deinterlacer to conform the footage but I thought with Cinema Tools it would probably do a better job of maintaining the quality. Do you need to change the file format type for FCP to be able to import the footage? Thanks again for the help, it is greatly apprectated.

Chris
 
final cut sees it natively - but i usually transcode to prores or even dvchd pro (not sure if this is a great idea but my HVx is DVCPROhd so its nice to have same format in the timeline)- for fast rendering speed on the timeline. (the native h.264 is a pita to render when you make color corrections / retiming)
 
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