How do you capture 30f footage?
 

Shot a little thing in 30f for the fun of it, but in looking at easy setup on Final Cut Pro, I'm not seeing any preset for HDV 1080 30p. How do you capture footage from the A1 shot in 30f? Thanks.

As far as I know, 30f should be captured with the 30p Easy Setup. Technically it's still progressive even though the image is captured in fields. I'm pretty sure it's recorded to tape in individual frames.

Try it out and see! Hope this helps.

--Colin

Thanks for the suggestion, however there is no 1080 30p HDV easy setup in FCP. There's HDV 1080p24 and HDV 1080p25, but no HDV 1080p30.

I tried capturing at 1080i60, and it captures and can edit in a 60i timeline w/out any render.

How are people editing HDV at this framerate?

Pfftt, I'm an idiot. I misread your question, and I thought there was an HDV 30p easy setup. I looked myself and you're totally right.

I'm just as clueless as you are. I mean, since you were able to capture, you could change your sequence settings, maybe - change your Quicktime video compressor to H.264 or something? I've heard that recommended, though it seems to me it would compress your footage unnecessarily.

Gah, I don't know. Don't listen to me. I hope that someone has the answer.

--Colin

Yeah, you're going to use the 1080 60i HDV preset for capture and timeline. The 30p is recorded in 30p and converted to 60i, so that's the preset you use. Should work great.

Okay great, thanks.