View Full Version : 30p shooting: do you capture this as progressive or interlaced?


Bill Edmunds
November 14th, 2006, 10:15 AM
Sony has touted the V1u as having true progressive shooting, but for some reason I get the idea that your capture settings would still be for 1080i. Is this true? If so, how is it true progressive?

Michael Wisniewski
November 14th, 2006, 10:24 AM
The Sony V1U captures progressively and stores the progressive images in a 60i signal.... 24p scan signals are recorded on tape as 60i signals through means of 2:3 pull-down. Similarly, a 30p scan signal is recorded as a 60i signal by dividing each frame into two fields ...For more information (click here) (http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/minisites/HDV1080/HVR-V1U/progressive.html)