Jerrold Tarog
September 9th, 2005, 04:11 AM
Hi Everyone.
I'm about to shoot a short film on mini-DV with a good chance of getting transferred to film. I'm using a Panasonic AGDVC32E, which is the PAL version of the DVC30. I live in an NTSC country and am quite aware that in order to avoid those annoying flickering problems with fluorescent lights (lights run at 60Hz, camera is 50i) I have to adjust my shutter speed to 60.
My questions are:
1. Will a setting of 60 shutter on a 50i camera cause film transfer problems? I'm concerned with the deinterlacing and 24p conversion stages. The standard is 50i to 25p or 60i to 30p, then pulldown to 24p. I have no idea what will happen with 60 shutter on 50i or how it will affect the footage later on.
2. Will the same setting cause problems in converting to NTSC for DVD output?
3. Will a shutter speed of 60 on a 50i camera turn the interlaced footage to 60i (thus almost making my camera NTSC-compatible with higher resolution but wrong frame size)?
4. Lastly (and this is a bit off-topic), regarding deinterlacing: I don't understand why I get clearer horizontal/vertical lines with DVFilm Maker but get generally sharper images by simply using Vegas 6 on interpolate setting. Any thoughts on this?
Would greatly appreciate your replies.
Thanks,
Jerrold
I'm about to shoot a short film on mini-DV with a good chance of getting transferred to film. I'm using a Panasonic AGDVC32E, which is the PAL version of the DVC30. I live in an NTSC country and am quite aware that in order to avoid those annoying flickering problems with fluorescent lights (lights run at 60Hz, camera is 50i) I have to adjust my shutter speed to 60.
My questions are:
1. Will a setting of 60 shutter on a 50i camera cause film transfer problems? I'm concerned with the deinterlacing and 24p conversion stages. The standard is 50i to 25p or 60i to 30p, then pulldown to 24p. I have no idea what will happen with 60 shutter on 50i or how it will affect the footage later on.
2. Will the same setting cause problems in converting to NTSC for DVD output?
3. Will a shutter speed of 60 on a 50i camera turn the interlaced footage to 60i (thus almost making my camera NTSC-compatible with higher resolution but wrong frame size)?
4. Lastly (and this is a bit off-topic), regarding deinterlacing: I don't understand why I get clearer horizontal/vertical lines with DVFilm Maker but get generally sharper images by simply using Vegas 6 on interpolate setting. Any thoughts on this?
Would greatly appreciate your replies.
Thanks,
Jerrold