T2i Footage for Motion Graphics/Green Screen/Animation

denzlite

denzlite

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So I'm just beginning my journey into learning After Effects. I have a ton of T2i 1080/23.97 footage that I'd like to mix with title animations in After Effects and ultimately upload to Vimeo.

Right now I don't see a need to stay at 1080 and to save room I'm thinking of setting up my base AE comps moving forward at 720/23.97. Same thing with Premiere sequences.

Is this ok? I understand for that "film look" -- 23.97 is good -- but when you start wanting to incorporate various title animations and effects should I be dropping that T2i 1080/23.97 footage into a 29.97 or 30fps comp?

I'm also going to start working with a friend who has a bunch of stuff from Cinema 4d 720/30fps. So I guess I'm just looking for:

A. Advice on how to manage all the various fps and sizes that I have. Is 720/23.97 a good common denominator?

B. Advice on moving forward. If I know I'm going to be mixing and animating should I start shooting T2i 720/60fps? What's generally the best fps for smooth motion title animations?

Thanks!
 
I'd start by testing 24p vs 30p at 1080. Shoot some moving scenes with both at various shutter speeds 1/120, 1/96, 1/60, 1/48, 1/40 and 1/30th. I have found that with my T3i, 1/48th for 30p and 1/40th for 24p are the money. The reason I say this is, I personally can't stand the strobing effect of 24p and particularly 24p with a 1/50th shutter speed. YMMV, so test where it looks good to you. In the end of the day you have to be the biggest fan of your own work if you are to keep interest in doing all the work this game requires for top results.

You can always scale 1080 down to 720. Conforming 30p to 24p is just OK and thus the recomendation to sort out if you can stand 24p for the type of work you are doing. Never film anything at 720p on the T2i. It's utter garbage and never looks good with massive aliasing and moire. It can work for an occational very soft slowmo shot, but even then I never use it. I have a 1080-60p camcorder that is orders of magnitude better for the occational slowmo shot.

Just my $0.02 on what can become a somewhat contentious subject some times :)

Cheers,
Pete
 
Awesome thanks, that's exactly the kind of stuff I need advice on. What's the technical jargon for T2i's sweet spot as far as shutter speed and fps go? So I can google. For instance, It took me forever to figure out that what my lens is doing is called "lens creep".
 
I cannot believe I have been doing video off and on for fifteen years and still cannot understand 24p and 3.2 pulldown. I think I grasp it, but have always tried to avoid really thinking too hard on it. I shot alot with bad DV cameras back in the 90s. Then I left video for the world of web design. So I missed the whole Panasonic DVX100A/B thing. I'm hoping that my conception is well founded that now these cameras shoot real 24p -- and the only time I have to worry about any pull down or interlacing or freaking non-sq pixels is when I'm using some goofy older camera. Please tell me this is true. :)
 
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