HD - 1080/24PA Advice

[giacomino]

I have a couple of questions re 1080/24PA. I will be shooting a trailer and the director wants to shoot in HD because he is going to transfer to Film. So I am thinking 1080 because he wants the highest resolution. After a test in Film Mode - 1080/24PA, I went to the "Clip Property" and noticed that the Frame Rate read: 59.94i. When I shot in 720/24PN, the Frame Rate read: 23.98p.

1) Am I shooting in 24?

2) If you are transferring to film, is 720 sufficient or would you recommend staying with 1080?

BTW, I am not the editor on this project.

Thank you in advance for your advice.

Jimmy

 

[jake stutheit]

IMHO if you're going to film out definitely shoot 1080. For future reference, please refrain from the red font, it hurts our eyes! ( why do they still have red font on here?)
720 24PN records only 24 frames per second, hence NATIVE 24. 1080 24P still records 60 frames a second but flags the other 36 frames for later removal by the editing suite.
All 24 frames a second is actually 23.98, and all 60 frames a second is actually 59.94. In common usage these numbers are frequently rounded up for convenience.

 

[tmnt]

Feel free to intercut 1080 with 720 if you're doing slow-mo. It's about a 15 % loss in sharpness from 1080.

 

[giacomino]

IMHO if you're going to film out definitely shoot 1080. For future reference, please refrain from the red font, it hurts our eyes! ( why do they still have red font on here?)
720 24PN records only 24 frames per second, hence NATIVE 24. 1080 24P still records 60 frames a second but flags the other 36 frames for later removal by the editing suite.
All 24 frames a second is actually 23.98, and all 60 frames a second is actually 59.94. In common usage these numbers are frequently rounded up for convenience.

Thanks Jake, and sorry about the red.