XL2 and 60i???
 

Hello,

I am working on a ski video and have normally been using Sony VX2000/2100s and editing on adobe premiere pro 2.0. Recently I got a XL2 and decided I would shoot everything in 30p unless I was going to make it slow motion, because I deinterlace the footage anyways after I shoot it.

Well, normally when I captured my 60i footage off the VX200 onto premiere it wouldn't need to render and I could just edit. So the first time I used my XL2 and it wanted me to render it I thought it was just because of the 30p, but when I wanted to shoot a shot for slowing down in adobe better in 60i it still wanted me to render it, Why? I thought it was the same 60i that came out of the VX2000. Also when I try to slow it down it is really choppy and looks horrible compared to the 60i footage that comes out of the Sony.

Any Help

james

Hi James. Just a suggestion - could it be that your project is 4:3 and your XL2 footage is 16:9?

Richard

Duh! Thanks. I have another question though. when you are making a film with 4:3 and 16:9 in premiere how do you go about doing that? I thought you could drop in the 16:9 clip and click "scale to frame" and it would just letterbox it.

Hi James. Sorry, I'm not familiar with Premiere Pro. In Vegas, you just set the project to 4:3 and the 16:9 clips will be letterboxed automatically. I thought Premiere would do something similar, but maybe you need to set the clip aspect ratio manually or something like that.

Richard