Sequence settings

aleebee156

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I am leaving on Friday morning for a snowboarding road trip and we are filming a documentary on it with my DVX-100B. I have been trying to figure out what settings i want to film in, 24p, 24pa, 30p, or 60i and could use some help.

I will definitly need slow motion but only for the action shots of actual snowboarding. Can i mix for example 24p and 60i footage on the same sequence? or 30p and 60i and so on?

I have been reading Barry Greens book and when he says to put 60i footage into a 24p timeline for slow motion, does that mean that i set my sequence to 23.98fps or 24fps? i was getting confused last night while on FCP. I want my project to be very film like and would like to experiment with progressive video but also need good smooth slow motion, as slow as i can get it. I just want to make sure that if i film both 60i and progressive video that i will be able to edit them on the same sequence. Everytime that i put different footage onto a sequence FCP asks me if i want to conform my sequence to match the clip settings, should i just say no and then i will be able to have whatever footage i want on whatever sequence settings i want?

and if i film 24p, 24pa, or 30p what is the best project/sequence settings to edit those frame rates? I will be filiming in standard 4:3.

I know there is alot of different stuff in here, sory if it's confusing and not clear, but i could use the help.

Chris:dankk2:
 
Shoot 24pA if that's what you're going for. And edit at 23.98. (60i and 30P both edit in a 29.97 project.)

For the slow-mo stuff, you can do one of two things:

Shoot 30P and use Cinema Tools to conform it to 23.98 (this will slow it down beautifully).
Shoot 60i as Barry recommends and create your slow-mo from that using a program like Twixtor.
 
Thanks, would you recommend shooting sqeeze mode in 24pa? or is that not a good idea? i shot 60i with sqeeze mode and got terrible results. Maybe because it's interlaced, will progressive video be the same?
 
Shoot squeeze, THIN. Squeeze in 60i does not yield favorable results. Squeeze in 24p is fantastic.
 
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