Re: [Avid-L2] 29.97 and HD / RANT

Late to the party, however:

Go 24 if the international distribution is cinematic ONLY - if this release form is just a future option or if it's TV anyway: go 29.97.

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I tell production and camera to go either 29.97 or 25 in the respective territories if aiming for cross-territory distribution (that is: international). Ideally: shoot interlaced if possible.

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Gives you plenty of picture information over time (either 59.94 or 50 frames only of upper or lower fields) that will be the source for the standards conversion.

This can be done QC-sufficently with standard SW or HW "on a budget" (compared to SW Alch). However, one will end up with intra field edits if the source it treated linear (as opposed to clip-segmented).

Obviously, going from 23.976 to 25 (p/PsF for "interlaced TV distribution") can "pleasantly" only be done on SW Alch.

my 2¢

Jo

On 4. Aug 2020, at 03:54, hoplist <hoplist@hillmanncarr.com> wrote:

Very interesting, and in hindsight, it's obvious why I am wrong about 24 versus 25. The world has changed since I last dealt with international shooting. It makes perfect sense to me that in 50hz countries, people shoot at 25fps for domestic consumption. But I do have a question. If I were shooting for international distribution, should I consider 25fps instead of 24fps? Or are we still shooting 24fps for international?