DC
04-21-2006, 11:50 AM
The following landed in my email inbox this morning:
I forwarded this to a camera dept friend who owns one of these cameras. He did some tests are here is his response to what he found.
Interesting.
I recently completed a feature on this camera, recording at 24PN (24 frame progressive native) with the scene file frame rate set at 24 (not
"default") and the audio worked just fine. I just now tested all the 720 line recording formats and found the following:
at 720 60P I'm getting audio at all frame rates.
at 720 30P I'm getting audio at all frame rates.
at 720 24P I'm getting audio at all frame rates.
at 720 30PN I'm getting audio only at 30 fps or "default"
at 720 24PN I'm getting audio only at 24 fps or "default"
You can't run off-speed at any of the 1080 or 420 line formats.
I suspect Cap'n Dude was on a job that was recording at 720 30PN, so when the camera was set to 24fps it was running, essentially, off-speed.
The good news is that when you turn this camera off and on again the scene file reverts to saved settings, so unless the camera department bothered to overwrite the scene file when they started changing speeds they could easily get back to where they started. This isn't true of the recording format, which is changed in the "recording setup" menu.
I forwarded this to a camera dept friend who owns one of these cameras. He did some tests are here is his response to what he found.
Interesting.
I recently completed a feature on this camera, recording at 24PN (24 frame progressive native) with the scene file frame rate set at 24 (not
"default") and the audio worked just fine. I just now tested all the 720 line recording formats and found the following:
at 720 60P I'm getting audio at all frame rates.
at 720 30P I'm getting audio at all frame rates.
at 720 24P I'm getting audio at all frame rates.
at 720 30PN I'm getting audio only at 30 fps or "default"
at 720 24PN I'm getting audio only at 24 fps or "default"
You can't run off-speed at any of the 1080 or 420 line formats.
I suspect Cap'n Dude was on a job that was recording at 720 30PN, so when the camera was set to 24fps it was running, essentially, off-speed.
The good news is that when you turn this camera off and on again the scene file reverts to saved settings, so unless the camera department bothered to overwrite the scene file when they started changing speeds they could easily get back to where they started. This isn't true of the recording format, which is changed in the "recording setup" menu.