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  Documentary b-roll footage for PAL/ NTSC: shoot in 1080/24p?

  Posted by Heath Cozens on December 27, 2007 at 5:57 pm

  I’m planning a small library b-roll footage for use in broadcast documentary. Would you good folks please give me your thoughts as to the best format to shoot on?

  Let me background the situation first…

  I am renting a Panasonic HVX 200 to run it though it’s paces as a New Years break project.

  The idea is to use the opportunity to start building up a little library of local b-roll for Royalty-free usage.

  It’s a slightly tricky proposal because I deal with productions from all over, hence the need to shoot with the both the NTSC and PAL markets in mind.

  I’m thinking of going with 1080/24p. It seems it can be converted to either PAL or NTSC fairly easily, and is perhaps suitably pretty for documentary b-roll. Is this really the best, most broadly usable format? Would 60i be the way to go?

  Your thoughts and suggestions would be deeply appreciated.

  Chris Brown replied 18 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Chris Brown

  December 27, 2007 at 10:03 pm

  I would be for 1080 or 720p at 24fps. Works great for downconversion to NTSC – just add pulldown. Do a small speedup to 25fps for PAL and you’re good to go as well.

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