Is converting 30fps to 60 lossless?

<p>Hello. We've been shooting wildlife vids at 1080 60fps with a Canon XA20, and want to add a 2nd camera. The 2nd camera would be for displaying some dissecting microscope footage and for head talking shots.</p>

<p>The other camera we have is a T5i, which shoots at 1080 30fps. I"m not really sure what to expect and if conversion software would be worth the trouble.</p>

<p>I'm not expecting the 30fps video to look any better. Just wondering of this sort of conversion would worsen the look of the 30fps footage.</p>

<p>While a subject is talking, B footage of the location would be interspersed. Would scene transitions between converted 30fps to native 60fps XA20 footage look okay?</p>

<p>Not my area of expertise, but surely making a 60 fps copy of 30fps video would involve "printing" or copying each frame twice, so no loss of quality.</p>

<p>Thanks David. That certainly seems right. Thanks for your thoughts!</p>

<p>Watch TV on any given night and you'll see a huge mix of video and even film formats edited together. Some material may have originated on 1080 60 fps as you say. But some of it can be 60i and some 60p. Then there are other HD formats, and standard definition, which was shot at 30 fps (actually 29.97). Not to mention international video format different than US. And of course movie film at 24 fps.<br /><br />Bottom line is that just about anything can be edited with just about anything and will ultimately look fine on the screen.<br /><br />As far as conversion software, most modern editing software can handle most formats and automatically convert them to whatever your output format is.</p>