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Mixing 60p and 30p in the same timeline in Final Cut
So…. I normally shoot in 720/60p (for slo-mo purposes). After realizing that 1080/30p is much better (what was I thinking… I barely even used the slo-mo!), I’m left with a small problem.
I started a project shooting in 720/60p and ended it and 1080/30p, not realizing until now when I was importing/transcoding.
So… what to do?
I’m guessing going into MPEG Streamclip and changing all the 720/60p to 720/30p. Is that the best way?
If so, are there any other things I have to do before exporting my final project? And I take it my final project (including my 1080/30p footage) will end up being 720/30p?
Thanks for the help….
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I did this…..
Set the sequence settings to 720/30
However, when I dragged my 1080/30 footage onto the timeline, the 1080/30 looked a bit choppy
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I am not sure if this is where I post this, but it seems like this thread is addressing my issues. I shot a wedding using two cameras, a Sony HVR-Z5U and a Sony FX1000. I had them both set to 30P but didn’t realize until importing that I had set the Z5U to shoot native 30P and the FX1000 shoots 30P Progressive scan. I captured as HDV30P and all seemed fine in FCP 6. But after my Drive crash and reinstall of operating system and upgrade to FCP7, the timeline calls for rendering now. I checked the info on the clips and thats when I realized that I have both types of 30P. So now I have decided to render as prores 422 to save time with this monster HDV footage. I know I should have captured as ProRes 422 but didn’t know about it at the time and now I have 13 hours captured and I don’t want to re capture. I am not sure of what sequence settings I should use. What are the general settings for this situation and the render settings. field dominance for native 30P I thought was none but 30 progressive scan says 1080 60i in the info so that is either upper or lower. I get so confused by all of this. I hope I have not been too confusing in my questions. If anyone has any advise, this old dog learning new tricks would really appreciate it.
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