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best overall settings for most flexibility
I have not dug into my project enough to contemplate setting my hair on fire just yet, but I am curious about project settings. My first project, and the whole reason our non profit put our editing system together was to complete a documentary about an orphanage in Mexico that we work with. We meet a lot of people in our charity work and have some celebrity contacts but I won’t even pretend to make that more than it is. We communicate in email through representatives and we are more concerned with keeping financial support for the orphanage in line. One of our contacts is very involved in the film festival aspect of SXSW and has agreed to help us with submission next year. But again, with this “contact” I am talking a friend of a friend who is aquainted. There is no “give me a call anytime” type of friendship going on here.
Sorry to ramble but this brings me to my reason for posting. I have footage that is 720/23.976, 1080/60i and 480i. I am wondering what my project settings should be… I have looked and it seems that some film festivals will accept discs and some require 35mm film prints (not going to be able to do that). I come from a background in home theater so I do know about scaling, framerate conversion, etc. I also know that I have seen 24p originated HD footage scaled to 720p and 1080p 60 and it looked good. On the flip side, I have seen 1080 60i scaled and converted to 24p and it looked bad, although it can look really good with proper deinterlacing and scaling.
Basically, I know there are a lot of methods for getting my footage in the correct framerate and rez and with that in mind, if my goal is to submit to film festivals, what is my best bet for my project settings? I am “assuming” 1080/23.976p. I have also read that 720/23.976p is good compromise for upconversion to 1080 and donscaling to NTSC. Thanks in advance.
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