[Cyn Kennedy]

Okay, so if I’m in North America, want to get footage onto YouTube but hope to also use said footage to create a future DVD release, what’s the best setting? My HD camera has 60i , PF30, and PF24.

Here’s my understanding so far, if I’m shooting sports, 60i is best for fast moving subject or camerawork, PF30 is good for a fair amount of movement with subject or camerawork, PF24 is the most economic in terms of compression and is fine for most “lock off” camera or less active subjects.

Since my subject is less active, I’m thinking that if I shoot PF24, for an NTSC HD DVD, it can be fairly easily transferred to 30fps with, essentially a 3/2 pulldown like old school film to tape transfer work. (i.e. frame one field one, field two, field one, then frame 2 field 1 , field 2….. lather, rinse, repeat!… while I understand that it is creating a 29.97fps and not exactly 30fps, this isn’t intended for broadcast on a network and isn’t going to be longer than about 5 minutes at most. (not long format)

Please correct me if I’m misunderstanding this…and feel free to make recommendations.