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New to Forum and have some fcpx questions
HI there, I am pretty new here and I have looked through other posts and these are some of the questions I either have not found or have not figured out yet.
I was just watching some movie trailers and was thinking how would I do something where I have a perspective where it looks like film,(24p) then a handheld perspective like a person carrying a video camera (30p) then I might have some things I want to do a slow mo effect on (60i) so I have more frames to slow down and make it not look choppy.
Would Final cut pro x keep the different frame rates or would I need to create the project in the highest frame rate?
What I as thinking was doing a project basically like a horror movie where you have the audience point of view then a character would record some stuff on his “camcorder” then for some special stuff I would record in 60i so I can slow it down to look super slow.
I am using a cannon hfm31 so my camera isn’t super high end.
I am also wondering because I have played with all sorts of settings, how I should convert my HD video to SD so I can burn it on a regular DVD. A friend wants me to help me start shooting weddings and even though I shoot in HD most people don’t have blu ray players ( and I don’t have a blu ray burner) I would like to be able to burn a dvd that has high quality. I have friends that have a regular DVD player hooked to an HDTV and want it to still look good on there. I have burned discs in the past that look awesome on a standard tv but then look a little pix-elated on the big tv but actual movie DVDs look fine on there. Just wondering if anyone can help explain this to me. I shoot everything in HD now and I prefer to shoot 30p as a standard because most things are going to end up on either the internet or DVD for now. Thanks for your time.
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60i isn’t going to help you with slomo. 60P will. 60i is 60 moments in time, but each is only half a frame. A field. This is the frame rate of classic TV and 1080 broadcasts.
What you can do is shoot 60p, which is 60 actual frames. Usually 720 instead of 1080. A trade off of resolution for full frame rate. If you’re going to SD then the resolution is moot anyway.
In the legacy FCP Studio world, you would open up the 60p file in Cinema tools and conform it to 24p. Which simply means it will now be played back in all apps at 24fps, slowing it down to 40% of it’s natural speed. I’m not sure how this is done is FCP X world. I haven’t delved into the speed ramp tools too much yet.
So, put everything in a 29.97i (60i, same thing) sequence in FCP X. The 60p conformed to 24p will play at 24fps but FCP X will add pulldown for smooth playback. The camcorder looking footage should be shot at 29.97i(60i) to look as consumer as possible. The 24p filmish stuff you shoot will get pulldown added to mix into a 29.97i sequence just fine too.
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Did X.0.4 fix the DVCProHD slow mo? x.0.3 does not recognize the DVCProHD 720p60 codec when overcranked.
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