How to convert 50 FPS to 24 FPS without going into slow motion?

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Andrew

Hi! I have access a very nice DSLR camera (Panasonic HDC-HS700). However, it only shoots in 50 FPS or 60 FPS. While this would usually be great, in this circumstance I would like to shoot in 24 or 30 FPS. The camera itself can't shoot in those frame rates. Is there any way to convert the video, without going into slow motion footage? Thanks so much.
Thanks so much for all the feedback! I have access to Final Cut Express, and potentially Final Cut Pro. Thank you, again.

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Hi Andrew, and welcome to Yahoo!Answers:

Two of my fellow Y!A Contributors already chimed-in, but unfortunately "Mmm J" either overlooked that you =did= list your camera (Panny HDS-HS700), or he meant to say "too bad we don't know which editing software". Perhaps he was thrown-off by your calling the HS700 a "DSLR" (it's not!), and M.J. thought another camera was involved.

And Dave ("Palladini") is a bit off-base, depending on what software you have. (True, based only on your "headline text" converting 50fps to 24fps is a weird conversion choice. What you'll actually want to do is shoot in 60fps and output at 30fps.) In Europe & the UK, film transfers and film-look projects are actually done at 25fps, to keep everything "even" compared to their normal 50Hz systems.

Since you are borrowing equipment, the whole frame-rate thing is probably new to you, as far as edit workflow.

You'll set your edit software "project settings" to import & edit in 60fps (the HS700 gives you 60p and 60i options). Everything will run & play at normal speed. It's only when you do your "output render" (for DVD or upload file) that you'll have the software convert the frame rate. That's when the automatic "discard every other frame" will occur.

And Dave probably forgot that good edit software can automatically accomplish the reverse of what's called "3:2 pulldown" (or virtual telecine) for final output at 24fps from higher frame-rates.

Feel free to tell us what software you have or can access for editing your project. Some edit packages don't "play well" with AVCHD footage.

hope this helps,
--Dennis C.
 

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mellolikej

I'm looking to buy an affordable DSLR camera which is fairly easy to use but still produces images of great quality, and doesn't require me to buy mass amounts of lenses and other bits and pieces in order to release it's full potential.

I was looking at the Sony a230 because of it's low price, simplicity, and picture quality, but the fact that it can't take videos has turned me away.

I could stretch to AU $1000, $1200 if it's really good, but the lower the better.

Thanks

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Picture quality mostly depends on you, the photographer. It doesn't matter if you only use one non-zoom lens on your dSLR. If you know what you're doing, you'll get mass amounts of cash with your great photos.

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