URGENT! Please Help!

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Jackson Miller

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Ok. I am running very short on time. Tomorrow I am directing and shooting a staged car accident with deaths etc. It is a demonstration to discourage drunk driving and is very realistic (major roads blocked off, helicopters, ambulances, firetrucks, etc. It must be filmed and edited in 24 hours.

So we have six people filming. We have two DVXs, a canon HV20 and three cheap consumer panny cams. The first three cameras mentioned will be in 24pA. So, first of all, will the 60i footage from the other cams be fine on a 24p timeline?

And my main question -- How can we edit the 60i footage to make it match the 24p footage as closely as possible? Are their filters we should use? I heard something about overlaying a clip on the 60i footage of black bars scrolling downwards very fast to simulate the bars that separate film frames. Would this work? How would we do it?

Basically, what can I do to make this footage all match as closely as possible? How can I make 60i look more like 24p? I know it won't be perfect. Please tell me anything you know. I don't have much time. Thanks so much.
 
1) shoot 24p (not advanced) on the DVX's and HV20. Edit the project in a 29.97 timeline. then you will have no issues (format wise) mixing the footage.

2) dont' do that scrolling black bar thing. that's absurd.

3) for 60i, shoot with a 1/120s shutter speed. i wouldn't go crazy over filters and such trying to get them to match.

Overall, my approach would be to make the DVX's the two "A" cams, the HV20 would be the "B" cam, and the 60i cameras could capture good material for dramatic slo-mo shots. If you were to only use the 60i stuff for slow-mo and conform it (slow it down) to 23.98, then you could edit on a 23.98 timeline. Otherwise, I'd say stick to 2:3 pulldown and edit on a 29.97 timeline.
 
...the HV20 doesn't shoot 24p unless in HD, so mixing HD and SD footage might be difficult. Your challenge seems huge and I'll post back in a couple minutes once I formulate some thoughts on the subject.

-Kegan
 
good point

are you going to crop the DVX footage and blow it up to 16:9? letterbox the DVX footage in a 4:3 timeline with the HV20 footage? or will you center-crop the HV20 footage to 4:3?
 
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