Question regarding the 7D and my HPX170 720 24pn footage..

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Imthedirector

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This maybe a simple/stupid question but I dont know the answer and I cant find a thread with info in it soooo....

I am ready to buy a 7D from a friend for an insanely low price and I was curious about something. I have never used a DSLR , I use a HPX170 and I shoot, 9 times out of 10, in 720 24PN. Since the 7D does not shoot 24p 720, how do I match them? Do I should 720- 60p on the canon and just try to color match? I've always hated the look of 60 (the soap opera look) so I didnt want to do that. OR do I shoot 1080 24 and scale down? (although I thought any time you scale, whether up or down, you lose quality) so I'm just confused. Is it just color grading that matches them or...??

can someone please explain .


By the way, |I use premiere pro cs4 (soon to be cs5) and I'm on a PC.
appreciate it..
 
I'd scale the 720P footage up to 1080 and work with it then. CS5 has Color Finesse packaged with AE so color matching should be a snap.
 
i'd scale down to 720 if i were mixing. did it once with hvx ...scaling down makes it look sharper IMO.
 
thanks fellas.. I guess I was just wondering how they mixed at different frame rates.

WhiteMonkey you said "scale up and scale down after you've created a 1080 master". what do you mean? are u saying scale the whole project up : my 720 24pn footage from the hpx170 with the 1080 footage 24p footage of the 7D , make a master and then scale back down to 720..?? why?

thanks again for the info guys..
 
Shoot 720pN 24 on your HVX

Shoot 1080p24 on your 7D

Transcode all of your 7D footage to prores (or DNxHD if you are on PC) at native size and framerate.

Work in a 720p timeline and just render out the 7D shots. It makes the DSLR footage look better when you scale it down since it really doesn't resolve 1080 lines anyway. This gives you the option to zoom a shot a bit in edit since the footage stays 1080p. If you don't want to render, trancode it to the same codec and frame rate as your P2 footage using compresser (though some would advise against transcoding to DVC Pro HD since it is not full rater, it depends on your deliverables). Hell if you have time, transcode everything to pro res and work that way. It makes things go faster when everything is the same flavor. Renders are so fast though nowadays, it doesn't matter as much as it used to for short videos.
 
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