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Mixed footage for Baseball Documentary with a chance to make it into theaters – Potential Thank
Talk about poor planning on my part…being the producer I should have thought this through in pre-production, but I was limited to my lack of experience and knowledge and just went with 30p instead of 24p. Ive been a one man band this whole time and need help. Here’s my problem…a potential 35mm print and exporting to Blu Ray in 30p.
I shot everything in 30p. And with a few different cameras. I started shooting with a Canon T3i and decided that I did not like the rolling shutter in 24p mode so I went with 30p. Im doing a baseball/sports movie and would end up doing a lot of whip pans so I after testing, 30p was the easy choice for this rookie shooter.
Also, I knew I wanted to use the GoPro Cameras in 30/60p mode and twixtor for slow mo effects so I figured 30p still made sense. I strapped Gopro’s to ballplayers on the field and the footage is really cool. I think it’ll add some major production value if I can get it on the timeline correctly.
Here is a list of what I shot with. I ended up picking up more cameras but stayed in 30p or 60i(with my Sony FX7)
1. Canon T3i – All Footage in 1920 x 1080 x 30p
– Some Baseball Footage, mostly Talking Heads and B-Roll2. Canon XHA1 – All Footage captured in 1440 x 1080 x 30p
– Baseball and Interviews Only (The best looking footage)3. Canon HV40 – All footage captured in 1440 x 1080 x 30p
– Baseball and B-roll only4. Sony FX7 – All captured in 1440 x 1080i x 60i
– Baseball WIDE Shots only from behind catcher(No Pans, a few zooms5. GoPro Hero HD – Footage shot in 1920 x 1080 x 30/60p
– Strapped to helemts, catcher, wrist, and even the batThis Brings up another small problem and thats the 1440 x 1080 footage. I know I’ll have to either recapture with HDMI capture card or move the footage on the timeline to position it where I want it, which is fine with me for now but should be a little work on my part. I am a little worried about the compressed 1440 and color correction though…so I might try to recapture if I get a Capture card.
Now, I do think this movie has a chance to really do something in the box office or Bluray and want to find out some solutions to getting a 30p output on 35mm Film, HDcam, or Bluray and still make it OK for TV Formats. What do you guys think?
If you wanna watch the teaser, go to https://www.thebaseballbond.com and it will forward you to the kickstarter page to click Play.
Oh yeah, I use a PC, Adobe Premiere Pro Cs5, on an i7 desktop, 12gb, RAID 0, NVidia GT440 with MPE. No Problems on this end for now.
My problems are:
1. A potential 35mm, HDCAM, and Blu Ray print in 30p.
2. the 1440 and 1920 x 1080 mix on the timeline
3. The choice on whether to convert the footage to 24p or maybe 60i?
4. Also, the film is 80% shot and I need to decide how to continue with 30p or not.Thanks in Advance! -justin
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I don’t know if you have access to After Effects. If you do this may help you in converting the film footage. What you need is what’s called 3:2 pulldown.
I’ve used a frame converter in the past from videocopilot.net. Here’s a link:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/fps.php
I know it’s an answer to only part of your problems, but I hope it helps.
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