[Zacharie Saugres]

Thanks Shane !

I found this quote from the manual :
“Selecting the Deinterlace setting causes the frame rate of the selected clips to double. For example, if the original interlaced clips have a frame rate of 29.97 fps, the deinterlaced clips will have a frame rate of 59.94 fps.”
So when I prepare my 1920×1080 25fps (interlaced) in Compressor, I should obtain 50p as a result, shouldn’t I ?

> Then, that means my project settings should be 1920×1080 50p , not 25p, and that the second set of rushes (the iPhone video originally at 23,984 / 24 fps) should be converted to 50p as well, rather than 25 as I thought, right ?

thanks for your always informative answers !

[Zacharie Saugres]

Dear Shane,
thanks for your very informative comments, I feel I look in the right direction, thank you ! (also for telling me that the offline/online workflow isn’t for me!)

I’m converting my iPhone rushes as described here :
https://www.edhart.me/2012/05/how-to-import-an-iphone-video-into-final-cut-pro/ (using the ProRes HQ codec), for the people who would read this page after a Google search.

[Shane] “Frame size doesn’t need to match, you can mix that fine”. OK, great, that means I leave the 1080 footage as is, and won’t upscale my 720p shots before editing. Thus, I could deliver 720p in the end, OR / AND 1080 for a higher resolution finished product.

But, VideoSpec tells me that my AVCHD (1080) footage is interlaced > should I put it “as is” in FCP, or should I deinterlace it first using compressor (>25p) ?

And, you seem worried, but yes my master audio recording is 44,1 khz…