System Frequency setting

[John Sharaf]

Herb,

The short answer to your question is that 59.94 should be used on all occasions except when shooting 25 or 50 fps for PAL exhibition. Otherwise the 59.94 systems frequency is used to accomodate the need for compatibility with NTSC which uses a small portion of the signal for color information. This setting allows downconversion for editing and transmission and will sync to seperate audio which is recorded at 29.97.

the 59.94 is the factory default on the Varicam, and the first models only had this systems frequency, later (and all current) models added the 60 setting to accomodate use in PAL countries.

JS

[Herb Forsberg]

Thanks John!