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Originally Posted by Brian Drysdale
However, if you have 1080p available in camera, I don't know why you'd actually want to shoot 720p.
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Currently technology (except at the very high end) only permits 1080p at the lower frame rates (24,25,30) - no 50 or 60 that is needed for "smooth motion". Hence if you want the latter, you either have to go for interlace, or 720p50/60.
Steve - you say "only 50Mbs" in relation to the PDW700, but inter frame 50Mbs should be at least as good as intra frame 100Mbs in terms of quality - if needing more processing to edit. The BBCs acquisition guidelines have been recently linked to on this board and they state minimums of 100Mbs intra, 50Mbs inter as acquisition codecs for unrestricted use. My hunch is that the PDW700 will turn out to be a very successful camera.......