60i to 30?

[Maxwell]

[QUOTE=Scott Hamilton;213230]Max, I am a new user. I believe I've seen a Scott Hampton, since I've joined. Maybe I'll change mine to avoid confusion.

My mistake.

[movielighter]

I have been able to do this in Vegas 8 after "painfully" seeing the results of dumping 60i footage into a 30p (29.97) project and seeing nothing but shakes and jitters.

Not in front of the video editor right now, but in Vegas you can set the project up BEFORE dopping the footage into the timeline.

Right click on the blank timeline, then properties, then set the frame rate and output standard, there is a pulldown box on the mid right side to select the "deinterlace" option. Do not put anything in here with the 60i footage, edit it, render it, then add it to another timeline to mix with 30p footage. Otherwise pulling "real" 30p footage in this timeline and it will not come out right at all.

* From memory, so might be a little off on where the settings are. Make sure you do not use the same setting on you other projects.

[Rumpelgeist]

I have been able to do this in Vegas 8 after "painfully" seeing the results of dumping 60i footage into a 30p (29.97) project and seeing nothing but shakes and jitters.

Vegas has no problems with mixing progressive and interlaced. Just don't forget to set "deinterlace" to "interpolate". Vegas will drop one field from 60i footage, but it will preserve progressive clips as they were.