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Scott Wolfson
October 31, 2012 at 6:08 pm in reply to: Mixing 1080 and 720 footage

Hi William,

Are you mixing 720 60p or 1080 60p in your 1080 24p timeline? Looking at Dave’s response it seems like a very cumbersome process to conform the 60p footage and upscale 720 to 1080?! I was planning on shooting b-roll with my 5D but if I go the 60p route I’ll have to use my second 60d b/c my second shooter is using a 60d too. But for the dance footage I only have two 60d and my third shooter can use either a 5D that doesn’t have 60p or my ex1r which I need to check.

Maybe I’m better off just shooting everything at 1080 24p and not doing any slo mo?!
Scott Wolfson
October 31, 2012 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Mixing 1080 and 720 footage

Hi Dave,

Thanks very much for getting back with me on this! For clarification…the Canon 5D mark 11 does not do 720p at all. The 60D however does do 720 60p. I want to make the editing process simple! I can shoot all cameras at 1080 24p and then won’t have any problem…much like I do now shooting at 1080 30p. But if I want to slo mo some b-roll 24p is worse than 30p correct? Should I stay away from shooting with the 60d b-roll at 60p? How bad will slo mo at 24p look?

Thanks!

Scott
Scott Wolfson
October 30, 2012 at 5:29 pm in reply to: Mixing 1080 and 720 footage

HI Dave,

I’m shooting with 2 canon 5d mark 11’s (I don’t believe they shoot at 720 24p? only 720 60p) and 1 Canon 60D (which does do 720 24p and a Sony XDCAM EX1r which I don’t believe does 720 24p. One suggestion I got was to shoot 1080 24p for the ceremony and toasts and shoot the rest of the b-roll all 720 60p. And to edit in a 1080 24p timeline. What do you think? Given that most of my cameras don’t shoot 720 24p? Again my final distribution will be blu ray and dvd. If I went the route of mixing 1080 24p and 720 60p on a 1080 24p timeline would my 720 shots look acceptable?

Thanks!

Scott
Scott Wolfson
October 30, 2012 at 11:19 am in reply to: Mixing 1080 and 720 footage

Hi All,

I have searched all over the internet trying to get “concrete” answers to this:

I have an upcoming wedding that I plan on shooting in 1080 24p for the main segments (ceremony, toasts) and 720 60p for footage that I plan to slo mo in the edit…b-roll action shots like bridal preps, dance footage, etc. My question(s) are:

(1) How will a 1080 24p timeline work with mixed 1080 24p and 720 60p footage? Will my 720p footage upscaled to 1080 look poor? My final output is for both Blu ray and DVD for the client.

(2) Do I use cinema tool to conform the 720p footage to 1080 24p first or do I have FCP 7 match the sequence settings when I drop the 720p footage onto the timeline? Having never worked with these two mixed resolutions and frame rates, I want to know specifically what I need to do. Do I need to slo mo my 720p footage in Cinema Tools or FCP?

(3) Till now, I have always shot my events at 1080 30p only and worked within a 1080 30p Pro Res timeline. The reason I am contemplating about using 720 60p is that I notice when I slo mo my “action shots” I notice an unpleasant “ghosting” effect around the edges of the subject. I’ve been told that 720 60p footage slo mo will help solve this issue.

(4) I want to shoot in 1080 24p as that is the setting most of the higher end wedding and event cinematographers shoot at. However, most of them don’t slo mo any of their footage. I do plan on slo mo some of my footage though.

Finally am I better off shooting mixed 1080 24p and 720 60p video or do I stay with 1080 30p or 1080 24p all the way?

Thanks!

Scott Wolfson
Wolfson Productions, Inc.
https://www.scottwolfsonfilms.com
(305) 458-6089