50 fps in a 50 fps project - or 25fps project?

Morphyx wrote:

… I guess shooting in 50fps and then working in the same rate makes the pictures sharper, than simply shooting 25fps and editing in 25...…

I start with a plain "No!" … 😉

'sharpness' is, aside 'glas'/focus/ …, dependent on shutter-speed.

slow shutter-speed = more motion blurr.

Ol' Silverbacks from TinsleTown will tell you the 180°-rule … a 25fps should be recorded with 1/50thsec, a 50fps would be 1/100th sec shutter speed - modern camera techniqués allow all sort-of of aparture, speed, iso, fps. But for sure, you can not apply 1/20th shutter-speed to a 50p recording 😁

Sharpness is part of 'quality', defined by resolution & bitrate, for sure focus, but DoF too (the actual 'look' asks for blurry bavkgrounds). But framerate …?

(compare to the actual debate about HFR in The Hobbit)

sooo, the usual question:

What do you want to accomplish, what 'look', what format?

(motion blurr is a wanted effect for all those 'film look'-afficionados)

'ENG' means TVbroadcast - never heard of any station asking for 50fps material (???) …

How do you deliver, what do your clients ask for?

a 50p delivery is rarely seen on Web video - but demands twice the bandwidth.

50p is perfect, when you do lots of slowmo (sports), but your projects then are 25fps.

otherwise, I see no 'use' for 50p in ENG.-

… My camera supports 50mbps …

excellent specs, … and, e.g. minimum for German broadcasters 😉

If you don't do 'for art's sake' your private projects, I would work in a standard predetermined by your contractees.

So would I be better of just editing in 25fps by default?

Yes, if you want to do slow motion. This gives you the standard video frame rate and the full potential for excellent slomo using the full frame rate you shot by conforming the media in FCP.