What professional camera would be good for a first time owner?

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Reghan

Ive owned a couple point and shoot cameras butbim really looking for a nicer camera with a lenses and flash thay would be good for action shots liking theater and surfing.

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Hi Reghan, and welcome to Yahoo!Answers:

From reading your "debut" Question, it appears you are in the wrong Category. This is Camcorders, not Cameras. The dead giveaway are the two phrases "lenses and flash" & "action shots".

You might re-post over in Cameras (see: http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_ylt=Aqp4oTffSjPxZLgJD6OVgO485XNG;_ylv=3?sid=396545631 ), or just watch this Q&A for a few days and see who else might post an Answer.

Y!A discussions stay open for 4 days, unless you extend that deadline.

You might also use the "Additional Details" link on the Action Bar (mouse-over the Edit menu "pencil icon"), and give us a price range for your budget. There's a wide range of models in the "professional" DSLR category.

hope this helps,
--Dennis C.
 

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

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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