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Panasonic VariCam 720/60p
I have read that DVCProHD is always recording 720/60p…I just had a client come back two months later during edit to me a tell me I should have recorded a certain project in 30p not 24p…Well, no style sheet was provided but still my question is…? Even though I assigned it to record 24p if the the camera is always recording 60p can that be brought forward and restored? If not than what do they mean always recording 60p and if so how do you access that in edit? Not in trouble but curious?
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Varicam always records at 60p. When you shoot any speed other than 60, the camera records redundant frames to make 60p. There is no way to revert.
Typically, when you shoot 24, the redundant frames are removed in when the footage is ingested into the NLE.
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Be aware that DVCProHD is a recording codec and there are many flavours of this, 1080 or 720 60i,50i,60P,30P,25P, and 24P, with all the various NTSC variations to suit.
With Varicam however, the recorder is always recording at 720 60P regardless of what the camera is cranking at. The recorder uses resources in the user bits to flag a cascade of frames to suit what the operator has the frame rate cranking at, anything between 1 and 60 frames per second.
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