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

[Bill Edmunds]

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]

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 ...

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