[Jaenet Guggenheim]

i am struggling with 24P. jeremy just advised me to try the compressor reverse telecine. which i will.

since the 24p is logged and captured at 29.97 i am wondering if going to 30P with it is a good idea?

i feel sad to think i will look all that pretty picture in compression and decompression. i have heard that is why shooting 720 24PN is just as good as shooting 1080i24P (long after i started this project)

— because in the end, you will have either 24PA footage that looks jerky on most tvs or you will have (somehow) 24P footage that you got into your fcp timeline by compressing and decompressing it, and in that process, you really lose a lot of clarity.

my concern is if i send it to festivals overseas, they have different frame rates. and it seems that going from 24PN to 25 is not a stretch, and that footage would look good. but i am really worried if i have to make mine go from 29.97 to 24 to 25.

so — can all this be done with 1080i 24p and still look good?