Isnt it about time to go Progressive?

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Joe,

Encore will allow you to encode 1080p 30/24.

As far as I know 1080p 30 is not actually part of the Bluray standard, even though I’ve used it multiple times for our own live event playback.

And of course, we will not see 1080p 30 in broadcast anytime soon due to bandwidth limitations.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Danny Winn]

I cant stand interlacing! and I never use it unless I am forced to by a local TV station for commercials.

Progressive is the way to go!

[Remy Mainz]

I cant see how to make encore do 1080p 30 anywhere.
If I choose progressive it changes my output to 24p or 1280/720p.

Is there a special settings somewhere?

I make my films for internet / TV and digital cinema. I dont need interlacing for TV so theres no reason for me to be forced to do interlacing anywhere. Its bad enough having to work at 29.97 instead of 30fps. HD should have updated these things once and for all instead of standardising them.

[Vince Becquiot]

I Misspoke, you actually have to pick 59.94, not 29.97.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Remy Mainz]

yes thanks

and 59i is only in 1280 720?

[Tim Kolb]

720p is only progressive in the television standard. The standard framerate is doubled…the field rate of 1080i. So the frame rate for standard television 720p is 59.94.

This gives it the silky “NHK” TV motion smoothness of 1080i, but with all progressive frames.

Tapeless camcorders can do whatever they want of course as they are writing files instead of recording to some television-standard tape format.

I don’t know why one worldwide framerate couldn’t have been decided on for DTV as well as progressive, but I know that at least Americans are always worried about backward-compatibility…it’s how we got 29.97 in the first place.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,