Mixing HVX and AF100 footage

[mainstreetprod]

I'm shooting a feature with the AF100 at 1080P, 24fps. For a couple of shots I used an HVX on the 1080 -30fps setting, which I understand is actually 1080i. The footage looks great when played back in QT but when dropped on the FCP timeline with the AF footage it strobes a bit and looks choppy. Any solution to this?

 

[Barry_Green]

Well, that's basically an FCP question so you might want to ask your question there, but ... if you're putting 30p footage onto a 24p timeline, yes the NLE will have to blend frames together to make it work. You might want to play the HVX footage back at 80% speed, that would make it slow-mo (slightly) and should play smoothly in a 24p timeline.

 

[mainstreetprod]

Changing the speed to 80% speed didn't help, just made the bad looking clip go slower, so I took the 1080i30 clip and converted it to 1080p24 (Prores) in Quicktime. It now looks much better on the FCP timeline.