• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Mixing Formats / Frame rates

  Posted by Sammyla on May 31, 2005 at 6:12 pm

  I am editing a Cinematographer’s Reel on FCP 4.5. The footage is from 4 different movies, and I am trying to figure out the best way to combine it all into one sequence.

  I have footage in:

  DV-NTSC at 29.97 (telecined from 16mm)
  DV-NTSC at 29.97 (pulled down from a 24p DV camera)
  DV-NTSC at 24 (telecined from Super-16)
  HD-720p60 at 23.98 (shot with a pro HD camera)

  Question 1:

  Should I covert all of this footage to standard DV-NTSC 720 x 480 29.97 before I start editing? OR would it be smarter to convert it all to 24fps? (using cinematools?) Would it be higher quality to convert everything UP to HD 720p??

  Question 2:

  EVEN MORE ANNOYING, all the footage is in different aspect ratio. The HD is 960 x 720. The pulled-down 24fps DV footage was shot “stretched,” which — correct me if I’m wrong — is still 720 x 480, but plays at 16:9. The other footage is all full frame, 720 x 480.

  I am so confused. This project doesn’t have to be the most dazzling, high quality thing ever. It’s just going to end up on a DVD. But it’s for a cinematographer, so she’d like it to look somewhat nice.

  HELP!

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  Digitally Challenged.

  Sammyla replied 20 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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