no 25fps available, shoot in 50fps?

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ThatsBasti

Hello,
I want to change my videos from 1080p to 720p because its quicker to edit and upload. Usually I shoot in PAL 25fps, now with my camera I can only choose 50fps.
I don't want quality loss, but I'm pretty sure that I can just shoot in 50fps and my editing program scales it down to 25?
But the problem is that I have to choose a higher shutter speed and the picture becomes darker, right? So I better shoot in 1080p and scale it down right after?
 
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It's easiest to shoot in 1080p then just make the editing project a smaller file size. Even better, make the editing project 1080p just in case you decide you want it, but then just change your export settings to a lower quality. What are you editing on?
 
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I suggest that you test what you're using. I mucked around with a camera that only did 50p using Premier Pro CS6 and any time I output the footage at a different frame rate, it looked really jumpy. Way more than you'd expect with 24p.

Though I tried exporting it at 50fps and used a piece of software called Handbrake and converted it to 24p (didn't try 25) and it looked half decent.

Just saying, if you have the camera already (or at least access to footage) test before you go and spend lots of time shooting and find yourself not being able to use the footage. Even better if you can test the cameras footage before you buy it.
 
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If you're going to shoot at 50p and downsample to 25p, make sure to set your shutter speed to 1/50th of a second so you get the same kind of motion blur you'd get when shooting 25p. Then when downsampling, just drop every other frame.
 
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