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24p and 60i on my Canon HF10
Hello,
I am about to go for a vacation to Alaska and I will be using my Canon HF10 to record a hopefully nice movie 🙂
My question for you guys in here is what frame rate you think I should be using in my case? 24p or 60i?
I should mention that I made a similar movie from last year’s vacation using 24p. I am not sure if this was the best solution, but the result was indeed very nice. Not really anything to complain about. The only odd thing was that I had to use the 60i preset when editing in premiere pro cs4 (and premiere pro said the clips’ frame rate were 29.97). If i used 24p the movie got choppy and odd looking.
Thanks in advance.
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5 Replies
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Its up to personal preference. 24p will give it a film impression. 60i will look like video/real life. My 2 pennies… if your shooting scenery 24p (which I assume you are on this trip). If your shooting more people, like kids/family, I’d shoot 60i.
If you have CS4, why not edit in AVCHD in a 24p frame rate?
If your footage doesn’t import right (showing up 29.97) you can always select all your footage in the bin, right click and select “interpret footage” and change the rate to 23.976 (24p).
If you have a 24p timeline and footage interpreted right, you should have no issues editing.
Tim Robinson
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Thanks for your input. I think I read somewhere that the HF10 records 24p as 60i in some way.. it sounds a bit odd though.
I guess I can figure out these things and test different settings when I get home to edit the movie. I know that I can get a nice result – last years movie had a very impressive quality.
Nevertheless, yes, it will mostly be scenery I will shoot – aswell as the wildlife 🙂 Going to a bear trip where I am hopefully gonna get some nice bear footage.
I think I will try out the two frame rate settings and plug in the camera directly to my TV and see how it looks now. It should playback with the right frame rates if I try do this right?
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I hope your camera can playback what it shot! 😉 If you have a progressive TV (flatscreen/widescreen), your 24p might look smoother than your 60i footage.
Tim Robinson
tim@erobinsons.com
Pride-Mobility-Products
Corporate Video Editor -
I tried recording some small clips in 24p and 60i mode, and the 24p clips looked quite a lot less smooth than 60i. It was quite difficult for me to spot a clear difference (besides the smoothness). I couldn’t really spot the “movie feel”.. so maybe I should go with 60i.
Actually it surprised me a bit how jagged it looked since I didn’t think about this issue when I watched my movie from last year – but I was also careful not to pan too fast when I shot it. I might have to do some more testing.
My TV is a Pioneer plasma (720p, 7th generation or something – can’t recall exact model name), it should be a nice display to view 24p material due to some 72hz thing – i’m not so much into the details about that 🙂
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By the way – I couldn’t find my HDMI cable to connect the camera to my TV, so I just used the component cable. This shouldn’t make any difference regarding 24p vs 60i right?
Might be a silly question but I just wanted to be sure 🙂And what frame rate would you think is best for filming animals? At close range/zoomed in.
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