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Help! My client wants me to edit 24P
My client wants a film-look video so I decided to use a DVX100B set to 24P. The problem is I have no experience editing 24P. I know that I will be using the 24P project settings before I import the footages. However, if I burn to standard DVD, will my video play 24P in a progressive scan capable DVD player? How about on a player without progressive scan? Will it play interlaced in ordinary standard def TV. And finally, will the video be of the same size on the DVD as compared to a video shot in interlaced mode? A friend of mine told me that it will not fit a standard DVD since the video will be
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If your client wants ‘film look’, you have to shoot it. Nothing done in post with frame rates will achieve the filmic look. All the hype about progressive, 24P and what else is a lot of bullsh*t it you don’t shoot the filmic look in the first place.
You are better off with a properly shot video at 29.97 than an ordinary video shot at 24P to get the filmic look. If you are not exporting to film (the chemical one), forget about ‘creating’ a filmic look by using 24P. Playback will still be 29.97 or 60i for NTSC or 50i for PAL.
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I’d totally agree with Harm on this one: there are thousands of “film looks” – shoot the one you want (Orson Welles’ deep focus anyone, or film noir, or Hollywood romcom, or French New Wave ..?)
Still, though, some people brought up on the NTSC television standard see the characteristic “pull-down” of telecine from 24fps film to (almost) 30fps NTSC video, along with a widescreen aspect ratio, as big factors in a “film look” – something quite alien / mystifying to those of us brought up on PAL.
So if that’s your bag and your market, it might work for you. You could try editing in your source format (monitoring with a video screen capable of displaying 24p – movements need to be a little slower than interlaced video to avoid unfortunate picture effects like tearing or strobing). When you’re done, add 3:2 pull-down and go to NTSC for your DVD output … hope it looks how you want.
Standard DVDs are PAL or NTSC – 25fps or 29.97 fps. Interlaced.
Progressive scan footage in these standards is produced by “freezing” the motion over the two fields of each frame: if it’s done well, this needn’t be at the expense of losing resolution, though often it is.
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