Why is there no 50i on this camera?

There will be in the European version...25p in an a 50i stream

You have the choice between 1080p25 and 720p50.
Isn't that enough ?

I just want to combine the material from the GH1 with my other footage in 50i, shot with HV20.
So from other posts I read that there is no 1080i60, so I assume there will be no 1080i50 neither!??

Rob, what is it that you want to achieve? Do you simply want to mix footage shot with an hv20 PAL model with footage from a PAL model GH1, if so then this shouldn't be a problem. Or are asking if the footage will match up/look the same?

i'm pretty sure it does true interlaced

otherwise your 50p will needed to be converted to 50i which shouldn't be a problem

I've downloaded a m2ts from a PAL gh1 and it is 1080 25p not 50i, this is, 25 progressive frames, not 50 interlaced

said that, this is the only pal m2ts I've found so.. lets see

Rob, what is it that you want to achieve? Do you simply want to mix footage shot with an hv20 PAL model with footage from a PAL model GH1, if so then this shouldn't be a problem. Or are asking if the footage will match up/look the same?

No, the footage will ofcourse look different from HV20, or maybe it matches the GH1 pretty good, but I don't think that anybody has been able to compare the footage from both machines yet?i

I just hope that I will be able to combine both streams into a (AVID) timeline and in case I have to convert into 50i I will not loose to much image quality.

umm....of course the footage will look different. totally different cameras.

but you want the same 'look' in terms of frame rates and fields

umm....of course the footage will look different. totally different cameras.

but you want the same 'look' in terms of frame rates and fields

That is precisely what I would like.

Rob

Why don't you try downloading a 25p clip from somewhere and trying it with your hv20 shots? I think the footage on dpreview was 25p? Anyway if you put it in your Avid timeline and see how it plays out. I would imagine that the GH1 is not going to look that great if you try to re-interlace, but I don't know.

Yes, I'll try that, thanks. Or maybe better wait for the release of the camera when all specs are cleared out. The sources at this moment are still conflictive.

Canon Realis WUX10 and EOS 5D Mark II (http://digitalcontentproducer.com/hdhdv/depth/sign_times_0409/index2.html)

According to this article the GH1 records in 50i.

i'm pretty sure it does true interlaced

otherwise your 50p will needed to be converted to 50i which shouldn't be a problem

There is no 50p in Full HD mode.