• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  24/1080p & 60p/720 timelime

  Posted by Jeremy Donaldson on March 16, 2011 at 4:14 am

  I just shot a music video w/ a 7D. Some footage was shot in 24/1080p and some footage was shot at 60p/720(Conformed to 24fps for slow motion)

  What timeline settings would be best for working with both types of footage?

  Should I work in 720p so that my 1080p is scaled down?

  My Setting for my timeline are:

  1280 x 720 (HDTV 720p 16:9)
  Square
  Editing Timebase: 59.94
  Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)

  Is this what my timeline settings should be? Slightly concerned about the 59.94????

  Jeremy Donaldson replied 15 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Chad Tingle

  March 16, 2011 at 6:36 am

  [Jeremy Donaldson] ”
  What timeline settings would be best for working with both types of footage?”

  Whenever I’ve used the combo of 720 and 1080 with Canon footage. I work at 1080. Once all the native footage has been transcoded to pro-res the 720p footage cross-converted to 1080 actually holds up pretty well.

  Chad Tingle
  Producer/Editor
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  Jeremy Donaldson

  March 16, 2011 at 6:48 am

  So what would your timeline settings be?

  Lets say I drop a 24/1080 clip in first and set my timeline to match those settings. When I do that, my 720 clips are scaled down.
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  Chris Tompkins

  March 16, 2011 at 12:01 pm

  Don’t you mean “scaled up” ?

  Yes, drop the 1080/24 clip into new sequence, yes to those settings.
  Drop the 720 slomo clips in there and don’t worry about it.

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta LLC
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  Jeremy Donaldson

  March 17, 2011 at 12:55 am

  Now that that puts me in a 23.98 timeline, when I conform my 60p footage, should I conform to 23.98 instead of 24?

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