24p to a 30 fps sequence conversion

24P to 1080i/30fps
Hello everyone. I am trying to combine footage shot on the SDX 900 at 24p with footage shot on the HPX 500 at 1080i/30fps
My sequence is 30 fps.
The 24p looks jerky & I am not sure what to do.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Regards
Bonnie

So you are mixing SD and HD in the same sequence.
The SDX 900 shot at 24P actually prints to tape at 29.97 inserting a 2:3 pulldown for a "Film Look"
Depending on how it was captured it is natively 720x480 interlaced at 29.97 and will have a judder to the footage due to shooting format. The HPX shot at 1080i30 will be native 1080 x 1440 at 29.97 fps with no pulldown.
If you have access to a Kona capable of upconversion or MatroxMXO2 you can upconvert the SDX footage to 1080 on input and maintain a DVCProHD1080i 29.97 codec. It upconverts quite nicely however it will still have a 2:3 puldown. If you don't have access to a capture card upconvert you could drop in your selects from the SD footage into compressor and convert via software to dvcProHD 1080i with a 29.97 timebase

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