Is 30p a true 30p or is it 29.97p

Philipandrews · Jun 9, 2022

Hello I was recently contacted by a television shoe producer looking to license some footage. They need it though in 4k 29.97. I just crashed mine and waiting on a new camera/gimbal assembly therefore I can’t check. Can anyone check for me by recording a quick clip in 4k 30 and putting in premiere or similar and see if it’s actually 30p or 29.97?

Thanks!

herein2021 · Jun 9, 2022

Philipandrews said:
Hello I was recently contacted by a television shoe producer looking to license some footage. They need it though in 4k 29.97. I just crashed mine and waiting on a new camera/gimbal assembly therefore I can’t check. Can anyone check for me by recording a quick clip in 4k 30 and putting in premiere or similar and see if it’s actually 30p or 29.97?

Thanks!

The footage out of the EVO II 6K is 30FPS and 60FPS. It was one of the first oddities that I noticed and mentioned in this thread. If you already have the footage that the client needs it is a simple matter to just put it in your NLE of choice on a 29.97FPS timeline and export it to 29.97FPS.

gschulzuio · Jun 11, 2022

herein2021 said:
The footage out of the EVO II 6K is 30FPS and 60FPS.

Not sure about the v2 (assume same), with the V1 E2P (e.g. 6K) footage is:
1K @ 120, 60, 50, 48, 30, 25, 24 fps
2K @ 120, 60, 50, 48, 30, 25, 24 fps
4K @ 60, 50, 48, 30, 25, 24 fps
6K @ 30, 25, 24 fps

herein2021 · Jun 11, 2022

gschulzuio said:
Not sure about the v2 (assume same), with the V1 E2P (e.g. 6K) footage is:
1K @ 120, 60, 50, 48, 30, 25, 24 fps
2K @ 120, 60, 50, 48, 30, 25, 24 fps
4K @ 60, 50, 48, 30, 25, 24 fps
6K @ 30, 25, 24 fps

That is definitely a more complete list, but OP's question was mainly focused on a nuance that is unique to the Autel drones (or at least the EVO II 6K) which is that it actually does shoot at 30FPS whereas every other camera I've ever shot with shoots at 29.97FPS and 59.94FPS.

True 30FPS and 60FPS technically are not NTSC compatible and must be transcoded to 29.97FPS and 59.94FPS for NTSC compatibility. I would assume however delivering a 30FPS project to one of the social media platforms would work just fine but for commercial customers unless requested otherwise I would never deliver a completed project at 30FPS.