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OK, I just got my mind blown yesterday trying to figure out my Canon XL2. For the last 3 months I've been using it, I'v been shooting in its 30p mode and capturing using the Easy Setup DV NTSC. Fine. But everything still looked as though it was shot in 24p (grainy, "film-like"), not smooth. Then I did some research online and found that it will only look smooth and "video-like" shooting 60i. So I go into FCP's manual to see what this means, how I should capture it and handle it, and it there's only one reference to 60i (using the search function in the Users Guide)...and that's talking about HD. But I'm not shooting HD.
So, if I want to get the "video" look (which I get using 30p on the Panasonic DVX-100...weird), can I shoot in Canon's 60i and still use the same sequence preset in FCP, or do I have to do something else?
Sorry for the long post. And thanks in advance. I tried to do a search for some of some of the threads here and couldn't find an answer to my specific problem.
Jonathan

Thanks, Zeb.
Wish I would have known that when I started out!
So I would just go on capturing and editing in the
Easy Setup of DV NTSC 48kHz and everything will be
fine, right?
Jonathan
Yes you are right. We use Xl2's exclusively here. Use DV NTSC 48k yada yada.
At the risk of sounding elitist, you really should thumb through your Xl2 manual. There's a lot of things you can screw up if you don't know your settings and you can wind up wasting your and, even worse, a clients time. Not to mention your professional reputation. But whatever
Just for future refernce
24p="film look"
30p=almost "film look" sort of a hybrid between 60i and 24p
60i=video

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