<<<-- Originally posted by Michael Struthers : I have seen some amazing transfers lately (that didn't even get distribution) from SD video shot in 60i. I can imagine that HDV in 60i will look much, much better. Plus the native 16x9 of the FX-1 helps another 10% or so just not having to go 4x3 to 16x9.

I doubt if Sony in LA takes the 60i NTSC footage into PAL before transferring. -->>>

Why would an NTSC footage be transferred to PAL?

The main reason why NTSC is so expensive to transfer is because you have to compute the 30 frames (or 60i) into 24 film frames, being careful not to leave out information that could be important. The softwares in charge of that process got better and better, but still take some time doing it.

PAL is tranferred direct, shooting every frame to film, which makes the process quicker and less expensive. Everything is more transparent.

Things are different when you shoot 24p, but then the cameras are more expensive.

One thing nobody could explain to me is why an origin 24p footage can't be as cheap as PAL to transfer. Aren't they ripping us on that?



Carlos