Stutter on my 1080/60p video

I just finished my first video in imovie with my panasonic TM90k camcorder.  It was shot in 1080/60p and converted with iVI so I could import it to imovie.  I noticed a slight stutter when I panned the camera.  It only shows up in the finished DVD.  Does it have anyhting to do with imovie only converts to 30fps not the 60 that it was recorded at?

roy hansen wrote:
…  Does it have anyhting to do with imovie only converts to 30fps not the 60 that it was recorded at?
'stutter' occurs, when the eye isn't able to combine the single frames of a video into one single smooth motion.
so, there's TWO options to increase the 'smoothness': more frames per second (the human eye detects single frames up to 1/200s), as illustrated in line 1)  OR adding motion blurr (controlled via shutter speed of camera), as illustrated in line 3)
a typical 'stutter' movie is a close-up drive-by of a snowboarder: the cam, in auto mode, rised shutter speed to 1/10.000th (too much light…) - yippeee, crystal clear ultra sharp single frames - but way way too much 'difference' between frame #1 and frame #2 in video = stutter. (as illustrated in line #2)
2nd example: watch any professional made Hollywood block-buster - you'll never notice ANY single frame WITHOUT 'blurr'. E.g. any sequence from a Transformer movie: blurred, blurred, blurred. in result: although a house-high bot waves about close-up to cam, the movement is smoooooth. FEELS smooth - no additional frames needed (movies usually have only 24p!)
(btw: that's why interlaced is so popular for sport-fans - although completely useless on  flat-screens, it adds ALWAYS 'blurr' to any horizontal movement)
summary:
60p is great and the future - but you have to keep the 60p from A to Z.
or, more challenging, act as a Director of Photography, manipulate shutter-speed manually, depending on content, situation, light circumstances and post-production (if you like to add slow-mo in post, blurred material is no good, depending on software/algorithms in use)

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