Combining different FPS? Vlogging camera 30fps, drone 24 fps, cinematic camera 96fps

I have been trying to find an answer on how people in general solve this problem when they create videos. How do people manage to combine several FPS in the same project?

Generally I shoot 30fps on my canon g7x, but recently I bought a DJI mavic pro drone where a lot of people recommend 24fps for the most cinematic look. I would like to combine these in a project, but is it possible? I read that you had to convert them to the same framerate, but I couldnt find any good software for it and it also felt a bit strange. And apparently FCP doesnt do a good job if I just import all the shots into my 30fps project.

How do people in general do? Lets say you VLOG on 30 FPS, you wanna shoot drone footage at 24 fps and you might have a cinematic camera for slowmotion shooting at like 96 fps or whatever the framerate for those kind of cameras are.

Do you use 30 fps as a base in the project and then just convert everything else to that fps? But will the quality of the shot still be maintained? I cant really find any good tutorials on how to handle this problem. Right now I just started shooting my drone in 30fps because I dont know what else to do.

Inform me, please!

Actually you have started doing the right thing: shoot at the frame rate of your delivery program, which is 30fps.

The only reason why people shoot clips in different frame rates than the timeline frame rate is to create effects such as slow motion. As an example: if your program will be delivered @30fps and you want to add some really slick slow motion clips to the timeline, shoot them @60fps or @120fps. When you add a 60fps clip to your 30fps timeline and you select "Automatic Speed". FCP X will automatically show all 60 frames of that clip on the 30fps timeline, creating a very natural 50% slow motion. And actually FCP X does a tremendous job with this.

In any other cases, mixing different frame rates on a timeline does nothing but adding useless complexity to your edit. And you really shouldn't believe people when they tell you that you need to shoot 24fps to create a "cinematic look". There is much more involved in creating a cinematic look than just using some frame rate.

To resume: when you deliver a 30fps program, shoot everything @30fps. When you use a high-speed camera to create special slow motion effects, just record at any frame rate you wish (the Phantom Flex records anything between 5fps and 10,000fps) and use Automatic Speed in FCP X to create stunning motion effects with these clips.

- Ronny

- Ronny

ronny courtens wrote: … There is much more involved in creating a cinematic look than just using some frame rate.…

stumbled just today over this , I think, helpful overview, what has to be done for a 'movie look' - beyond 24fps.


best of all:
the maker of this tutorial adds a short movie he's done, following his own advice - and it looks very movie-ish for me