Shooting Sports - 24P?

Hi Everyone,

I’m a newbie so please don’t smash me down. I could use some last minute shooting advice now that my Canon HF10 has arrived.

I would like to make a sort of HD (FXP+ mode) documentary for my family about a sporting event I will be participating in, so I was hoping to film all the dialogue and before/after stuff in 24P (i.e filming a day or two before as a build-up), but what about the event itself? Should I default to the sport mode of the Canon? A friend will be filming the fast paced action, but he is a novice, so manual control other than zooming is probably out of the question.

Can I film in 24P with Sport mode activated? Should I skip 24P mode for the before/after stuff? How do people generally find it? I haven’t used a Canon before, only Sony.

Is there a dramatic difference on a Blu-ray disc when the footage changes from 24P to Sport Mode? A seamless “look” isn’t necessary but would be nice.

Any advice from people who own the camera or have used it extensively is appreciated. Please consider what it is being used to film.

Thanks for info.

CD

Hi Everyone,

I’m a newbie so please don’t smash me down. I could use some last minute shooting advice now that my Canon HF10 has arrived.

I would like to make a sort of HD (FXP+ mode) documentary for my family about a sporting event I will be participating in, so I was hoping to film all the dialogue and before/after stuff in 24P (i.e filming a day or two before as a build-up), but what about the event itself? Should I default to the sport mode of the Canon? A friend will be filming the fast paced action, but he is a novice, so manual control other than zooming is probably out of the question.

Can I film in 24P with Sport mode activated? Should I skip 24P mode for the before/after stuff? How do people generally find it? I haven’t used a Canon before, only Sony.

Is there a dramatic difference on a Blu-ray disc when the footage changes from 24P to Sport Mode? A seamless “look” isn’t necessary but would be nice.

Any advice from people who own the camera or have used it extensively is appreciated. Please consider what it is being used to film.

Thanks for info.

CD

Use 24p mode for everything but the event itself. For the event use 30p mode. 24p is recorded within 60i signal with pulldown and captured as 60i. When you transfer it to computer don't remove the pulldown, put all your clips in the same timeline and de-interlace them as 30p using blend the fields method. So your final project will be all 1080/30p but there will be 24p parts with the pulldown.

For simplicity, i would probably just go with 30p all the way. Besides the simplicity, i think 30p is a better option anyways. There wont be any mixing of different frame rates (even though both contained within 60i) and 30p would look more natural than 24p for general usage. Also 30p is better known and accepted on PCs and online sites.