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Could you comment on this workflow?
I’d like to tell you exactly what I did for this project, and for you to tell me what I should’ve done differently. I feel that the final result looks a little pixelated, certainly not the highest quality that the camera can produce.
I am shooting on a Sony PMW-EX3. I wanted to be able to do slow motion so I shot the thing at 1080i 60fps.
(The camera does shoot 60fps at 24fps in progressive with S&Q motion. But I didn’t want all my footage to be conformed, and I was recording a little audio.)Once I got to editing, I dumped my footage on to an external hd and through the media browser in Premiere, imported the camera’s entire BPAV folder into my project.
My sequence is 23.98 in a “Sony XDCAM EX 1080p (HQ)” Editing Mode. I would edit my footage and slow down most of it to 40%
Here in lies my main question: is it a bad idea to edit 60fps interlaced footage in a 24fps progessive sequence?From a performance standpoint, both premiere and my computer could handle it, no major speed reductions or dropped frames. I am mainly worried about the output, if I am exporting a 24fps 1080p .mov with 60fps 1080i original media, will there be any loss of quality? or loss of something? How nessecary is it to transcode my footage to progressive beforehand?
Anyways, thanks for taking the time, tell me if you need more info.
J
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3 Replies
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You would be better off preparing the footage. 60i is equivalent to 30p once converted from interlaced to progressive. Playing at 40% speed requires construction of new frames. Do you have access to After Effects?
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Yes I do have access to ae, you think that’s the best way to do it?
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Try using the Time Warp effect in AE to generate the extra frames for playing at 40% speed in a 24p sequence.
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