Re: New to Forum and have some fcpx questions

60i isn't going to help you with slomo. 60P will. 60i is 60 moments in time, but each is only half a frame. A field. This is the frame rate of classic TV and 1080 broadcasts.

What you can do is shoot 60p, which is 60 actual frames. Usually 720 instead of 1080. A trade off of resolution for full frame rate. If you're going to SD then the resolution is moot anyway.

In the legacy FCP Studio world, you would open up the 60p file in Cinema tools and conform it to 24p. Which simply means it will now be played back in all apps at 24fps, slowing it down to 40% of it's natural speed. I'm not sure how this is done is FCP X world. I haven't delved into the speed ramp tools too much yet.

So, put everything in a 29.97i (60i, same thing) sequence in FCP X. The 60p conformed to 24p will play at 24fps but FCP X will add pulldown for smooth playback. The camcorder looking footage should be shot at 29.97i(60i) to look as consumer as possible. The 24p filmish stuff you shoot will get pulldown added to mix into a 29.97i sequence just fine too.