60p at 1080? What's the truth?

[Ticheli]

What's the real hard truth about this? Does the AF100 really record 60p at 1080?

Reading the specs this does not appear to be the case; looks like 60p is only active at 720.

Jan, how about it?

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo

[dcloud]

Search and you will find

[Barry_Green]

It does record 1080p at 20 different frame rates, from 12 up to 60.

However, it has access to faster-than-30p frame rates (in 1080) only through overcranking. So you can record 1080/60p, but it will play back at 24p (or 30p). You could, however, go in and change the playback frame rate to 60p and you would have legitimate 1080/60p with the "live" 60p look. But, in the current models audio is disabled when choosing to overcrank or undercrank, so if you want live 1080/60p you'd need to record audio separately.

In 720p, it doesn't do variable frame rates as slow-mo or fast-mo, it only has the stock frame rates; 24, 25, 30, 50, and 60.

[Ticheli]

Thank you, Barry,

I have no interest in 60/60, only 60/24 for slow motion.

I do find that the specifications published by Panasonic and shown by the likes of B&H do not readily reveal the over-cranking capability. As this is such an important feature, I find it surprising.

On a related note, do you know if there is an engineering menu choice for shooting at lower frame rates? I will sorrily miss my VariCam's ability to shoot down to 1fps. I do use 4fps a great deal; the streaks are quite lovely.

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo

[Dan Keaton]

Dear Ticheli,

The nanoFlash allows you to record over and under-cranked from 1 to 60 fps in 720p mode and 1 to 30 fps in 1080 mode.

And you can over and under-crank at any frame rate in the camera while simultaneously record at a different crank rate in the nanoFlash, or choose not to do over and under-cranking at all in-camera and allow the nanoFlash to perform the over and under-cranking.

You get a lot of flexibility with an external recorder that can over and under-crank.

I hope this helps.

Respectfully,


Dan M. Keaton
Director of Sales and Marketing
Convergent Design

[azonicbruce]

What about time-lapse? Will it be able to do that (w/out an external recorder)? Of is 12fps the slowest available?

[Barry_Green]

I have no interest in 60/60, only 60/24 for slow motion.
That's exactly what it does, and at full res -- not "upconverted 720" or anything like that.


On a related note, do you know if there is an engineering menu choice for shooting at lower frame rates? I will sorrily miss my VariCam's ability to shoot down to 1fps. I do use 4fps a great deal; the streaks are quite lovely.
Agreed, and I've been badgering them for exactly this. I've begged for at least 4fps. On the HVX200/HPX170, we found that you could hack the frame rate and get it down to 2fps; combined with a 360-degree shutter it made for gorgeous fast-motion streaks. As of right now the official word is 12fps for the slowest frame rate, but I do look forward to seeing if the same frame rate hack will work.

[Barry_Green]

What about time-lapse? Will it be able to do that (w/out an external recorder)?
Yes.

[Joe Walker]

but I do look forward to seeing if the same frame rate hack will work.

Have you got Kholi working on this one? :smile:

[Barry_Green]

Kholi's working full time on "Superseeds", his feature film being shot on the Red. He won't have time to be messing with new cameras for quite a while... :)