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HVX200 frame rate & capture question
I’m heavily leaning toward buying an HVX200, but I have a couple of questions.
1. If you use a firestore (or any external firewire drive) to capture video, is there
any loss of quality capturing this way as oppossed to using P2 cards?2. If I shoot at 1080/24p, is this ideal for a project being shot for DVD and HD DVD?
Would shooting at 24p save me some disc space, or would my frame rate be automatically
changed to 30p when encoding to mpeg for DVD and HD DVD in Apple’s DVD Studio Pro?
Is 1080/30p the way to go instead?Thanks, Jason
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1 Reply
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1. No, the quality is identical. You’ll just waste some space, since the 24 images you shoot will be filled up to 60 for FireWire transfer. The ‘dummy’ images will later be thrown away by the FRC.
2. If you want the “film look”, shoot 24p. There is a 24p format for DVDs, to which the player is automatically adding 3:2 pulldown for conventional TVs – no space wasted. But the film look is critical with the small chips in all of these camcorders since you don’t have much control over depth of field.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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