Dear Sirs,
as always, thank you in advance for sharing your expertise.
I will be filming an event next week. I live in Lebanon, so I need to film in PAL. The event will be covered using 9 cameras as follows:
3- Sony PMW-EX3 XDCAM EX HD
3- Canon XF105
3- GoPro Hero3 Silver
I have purchased the Hero3 Cameras few days ago and I did not know that they do not shoot interlaced.
I was planning on setting all the cameras to 1080 50i but now Hero3 has to be 1080 25p.
Should I set all the cameras to 1080 25p and then edit and export from Premiere from there or should I set all Sony and Canon cameras to 1080 50i and then interlace the GoPro footage somehow?
If yes, what software do you recommend for such conversion?
Please note that I favored interlaced video because most of the footage will have fast movement (2 Jiimy Jib and 2 Steady Cam) and I think interlaced video would be better in that case.
Also, I have read somewhere that there is a way to edit using preview-quality copy of the footage and then exporting using the original HighRes footage. is that possible? I am not sure if my system would handle a 9camera multican sync of 1080 footage.
Also, do you think 1080 50i is too much? I need to export to BluRay eventually but I really do not need SUPER high quality. would 720 50i do?
Thank you very much in advance.
PS. Is there some problem that I am overlooking when using Premiere to edit with those above cameras?