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Mixing 24p and 24pN Footage in FCP
I am shooting a piece and I want to make sure I won’t give the editor fits. I will be shooting with a Varicam at 720 24p and an HVX200 at 720 24pN. Once the DVVPro-HD tape from the Varicam is digitized will it play nice in an FCP timeline with the 24pN footage from the HVX?
I have never attempted this and won’t have time to run an experiment. Thanks.
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If all the setting are correct on the camera you should be fine. The varicam captured over firewire will remove the duplicate frames and the material should be 23.98, which is what 24pN on the HVX is. No panasonic tape can record true 24P so it puts it into 30P, the nice thing is there is not interlacing so it is super clean removal of the duplicate frames. I have mixed the two several times but someone else set up the cameras but the right way is also the normal. Once captured and transfered the FCP will not know the difference between the clips.
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Thanks for the reply – it definitely gives me a boost of confidence going into the shoot. I did some research and everything you wrote is spot on. The Varicam will kick some ass on the HVX but in daylight it will be hard to tell the difference. Best
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