Re: 720p30 through the kona?

Same thing happened here. We just finished a huge contract where 140 tapes were shot at 720p30 and captured at 59.94. I had to do it that way as I didn't have time to play around with capturing at 720p30. We are doing the exact same contract next year as well so I want to see if there is a better way to capture and/or shoot it.

Here are the details:

- shoot with a varicam,
- have to edit 720p material together with other 720p24 material that was shot 2 years ago, as well as stock dv footage supplied on beta, mini dv, and dvd.

Our deliverables are:
- all the final videos at 1080i60
- all footage shot delivered at 1080i60 either on tape or harddrive

What would be the best work flow for this?
This year we shot at 720p30, captured and edited at 720p59.94,mixed in 23.98 in the same timeline, upconverted the stock footage via compressor, or just streched it out in the timeline to fill the screen and added flicker filters due to time constraints, then gave the transfer company the final videos at 720p59.94 as well as our stock footage to upconvert to 1080i60.

Is that the best way to go? I am starting to think not due to the duplicate frames when you go from 30 to 59.94.

Alternatives would be to:

a) shoot and edit in 720p24
b) shoot in 720p24 or 720p30 and upconvert and edit the footage at 1080i60 through the kona... which would save us alot of money as we dont have to pay someone to transfer our tapes to 1080i, rather just give the client a harddrive full of the 1080i raw footage.

Any suggestions?