DP shot all RED footage at 59.94. I need normal speed playback. Best practice?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Bret Williams] “It’s actually been a few years since I edited anything interlaced. The majority being 24p with 30p a close second. If I have to integrate interlaced material, I’ve been pretty happy with X’s built in deinterlacing.”

Yeah, but interlacing a progressive source just to deinterlace it is not a best practice, at least in my silly opinion.

Even with interlacing, the fields won’t be perfect. You will have to drop the same number of fields to get to 24p.

FCPX, in my opinion, and I am very aware of cadence issues as I have to be, does a really good job of dealing with this. Compressor is unnecessary, really, as you have very similar controls within FCPX. You don’t have the “better” setting in FCPX like you do Compressor, though, and I use “Better” a lot.

Twixtor would be worth checking out, and the DP should pay for it.

Jeremy

[Eric Santiago]

[Jeremy Garchow] “The footage is already 23.976, it’s just overcranked.”

Oops I meant from 23.976 to 29.97 🙂