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720p mixes well with 1080p! · May 19th, 2010, 11:21 AM

the 720 footage just looks a slightly soft when viewed full 1080, but sharpening helps alot!

Chuck Spaulding · May 19th, 2010, 05:08 PM

I've had mixed results with 720P. On one video, Spring in Montana, I shot a fast moving carousel in 720 and 1080 and the 720P60 was much better. I recently shot some aerial footage from a helicopter in 720P and was not happy with it at all. A lot of moire and it just didn't look as clean.

It would be great if we could shoot 1080P60...

Kurt Zhuang · May 19th, 2010, 09:28 PM

I know what you mean; I feel that way about the quality overall sometimes. do you know if 1080 60p is possible with a firmware update or out of limits..

Chuck Spaulding · May 20th, 2010, 03:39 PM

I don't know, that's a good question.

If the Panasonic TM700, a consumer grade camcorder can record 1080P60, I don't see why Canon can't figure it out. But I'm not going to hold my breath.

Generally I edit in a 24 frame timeline so what I have experimented a bit with is shooting 1080P30 and in Cinema tools converting it to 24 frames/second. This essentially slows the footage down by 20%, nice and smooth, but its still 1080.

May 19th, 2010, 05:08 PM	#2
Chuck Spaulding Trustee Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Thousand Oaks Posts: 1,104	I've had mixed results with 720P. On one video, Spring in Montana, I shot a fast moving carousel in 720 and 1080 and the 720P60 was much better. I recently shot some aerial footage from a helicopter in 720P and was not happy with it at all. A lot of moire and it just didn't look as clean. It would be great if we could shoot 1080P60...

May 19th, 2010, 09:28 PM	#3
Kurt Zhuang Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: z Posts: 49	I know what you mean; I feel that way about the quality overall sometimes. do you know if 1080 60p is possible with a firmware update or out of limits..

May 20th, 2010, 03:39 PM	#4
Chuck Spaulding Trustee Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Thousand Oaks Posts: 1,104	I don't know, that's a good question. If the Panasonic TM700, a consumer grade camcorder can record 1080P60, I don't see why Canon can't figure it out. But I'm not going to hold my breath. Generally I edit in a 24 frame timeline so what I have experimented a bit with is shooting 1080P30 and in Cinema tools converting it to 24 frames/second. This essentially slows the footage down by 20%, nice and smooth, but its still 1080.