need help with framerates!

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sholzwarth

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Hi, am not sure if this is an editing question or cinematography. either way, any help would be greatly appreciated as i am out on a ship, shooting for the next 4 weeks.

I normally shoot in the 720p/24pn mode (on a Pannie hvx200) cranking the frame rate to 60 when I want that slowed down effect. When I'm shooting underwater, it helps a lot to use overcrank. My problem is (!!!) - the camera won't save that framerate and once it's locked up in the housing I can't reach the menu button. For shore dives I just keep the camera on the whole time but I can't afford to do that out here with no battery changeout options during the day.

Recently I had the bright idea of just shooting in 720p/60p mode. Which looks like crap when I log and transfer the footage, because the project imports it at 23.98 for some mysterious reason (ie- I've changed the capture and sequence settings, opened a new project, etc), and only imports that subset of frames. Any advice?
 
i set my hvx200 with 720p/30pn at 60 fps in one of my scene files and then 720p/30pn 30 fps in my the next scene file . i set the scene file settings the same ,and i have always been able to shoot reg spped then with a turn of the scene file knob ,boom,overcrank slowmo with only a little light loss .i never had the frame rate pop off the 60 fps setting once you save it . if you don,t save the settings they will rest only when you swap out the battery. shot in the waterhousing all the time never had the setting pop back to original.
 
Thanks so much for the advice. I tried that approach about 6 months ago, somehow botched the save part, and so figured that wouldn't work. Thanks for having me try it again- because, sure enough! It works.

Anyone have any ideas for how to salvage the footage I already shot in the 720/60p and 720/30pn modes, that doesn't look great (b/c it log and transfers at 23.98)?
 
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