OT: Sony DCR-PC350 (60i, 24P)

[SteveO]

Has anyone seen this new camcorder from Sony?
It's a matchbox style camera that shoots 60i, but also has a film-look mode. The film-look switches to 16:9 and records 24 frames in progressive mode at 1/30 shutter speed. To achieve 24 frames the camera drops every 6th frame. The camera does all this in the NTSC version. But, I'm trying to find out how the PAL version works? Does it record in 24P? Does the video have less of a strobe effect because it would be dropping just one frame out of the original 25 in Pal?


http://www.dvspot.com/reviews/sony/pc350-review/index.shtml

[David Jimerson]

Yeah, we discussed this in the Cafe a while ago.

It's not real 24p.

The PAL version will not have a 24-frame mode in any case.

[Barry_Green]

I haven't seen the PC350, but I would certainly suspect that it's pseudo-24p mode is the same thing that the FX1 and Z1 use, in "Cineframe 24" mode.

As for the PAL model, it's most likely doing a straight de-interlace to simulate 25p; as David said it's very unlikely that a PAL model would offer a 24p option.

[SteveO]

Towards the end of this (http://www.dvspot.com/reviews/sony/pc350-review/sample_movie.mov) sample video it shows the 16:9 film-look progressive mode in action, not bad!

[princigalli]

Looks good but really hard to judge a video camera - expecially progressive mode - on a 320 by 240 MOV. It would be nice if someone could post a full res quicktime file in DV codec. Not MPEG4 or anything else.