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Foreign Format Conversions- What Camera Settings are BEST!
Hello Everyone,
I’m hoping someone here can help me out here……
The question:
When you know from the start that a project will need to be delivered in multiple foreign formats what are the best options to choose in the camera (particularly frame rate)?The usual not-helpful answer:
Whatever is convenient, cheaper, available blah blah.
The deal is I am interested in quality, not what is easiest or cheapest but what will look the best going through multiple conversions. Pretend cost and convenience don’t matter. I’m totally curious from folks with experience doing foreign format conversions what are the biggest issues and how can I avoid them…or make it as good as it can get!What I’d like to know:
In an ideal world if I had every camera available to me what would be the smartest way to go to have the most flexible footage, where the image integrity won’t suffer too badly, even when you know it will have to go through frame rate conversion, frame size conversion, and differences in cycles.The not-so-helpful educated guesses I’m making:
Go progressive if possible to eliminate having to deal with fields all together.
Shoot 60fps when possible to have a frame per second, I’m totally guessing it would be easier to eliminate frames then add them, and would hold up better in high motion situations then having fewer frames to represent the same action.Other dumb assumptions:
Probably it’s easier to go from PAL to NTSC (this does contradict my previous statement) if you have to deal with SD, interlaced footage. The thought here is that PAL has more scan lines (more resolution) to work with.So, if anyone has some data based on experience there’s nothing I’d like more than to hear about it! What makes converting formats look great? What makes them a hassle? I’d love to know ‘why’ but even if you have no idea why…the evidence of experience would be invaluable to me.
THANKS!
khammond AT kenwood group. com
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1 Reply
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I would read this post:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=120&postid=857270.
It will go a long way in answering your questions.
Joe B
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