Reasons to stick with dv?

[Alvise Tedesco]

Other than lower data rate?

I shot some clip to test dv50 and 1080i50 against my dvx. I was mostly interested in Standard definition for an upcoming project to be broadcasted. A lot of people says if you need sd dv shoot sd dv. Better than having your footage manipulated/interpolated from square 1440x1080 to rectangular 720x576 (PAL).
I scaled all of my clips on a dv sequence in fcp and zoomed 600%. Wow!
Not zoomed, however, 1080i downconverted looks soft (on my mid-level PVM14L1) even if nicely "densier". Not tried yet to downconvert 1080i to a more robust format than dv, like dv50 or digibeta, but it looks like it's the way to go when looking, as I am, for better than dv footage, small camera, and releasing for broadcast SD: Shoot and edit dvcproHD, downconvert to dvcpro50, go out to a post facilty for print to tape.
dv50 unfortunately I think doesn't make so much sense to me, since I want "widescreen look" but SD TV it's 4/3...
I would have to use only the middle part of the 16/9 sensor and then losing another 25% letterboxing my 4/3 frame.
I would like to hear thougts on that.
Sorry for my english and thanks
Alvise

Can I post those jpeg grabs? How?

[TwistedLincoln]

Why would you letterbox? Shoot in widescreen, and broadcast in widescreen. There will be horizontal black bars, but as you say, you will have more resolution. If you do a DVD release, you can make an anamorphic DVD that will play full screen on a widescreen TV, or automatically letterbox (with horizontal black bars again) on a 4:3 TV. Seems like the best option to me.

Even if you absolutely hate the idea of black bars, I would still shoot in widescreen, and then crop. Even though you lose resolution for now, you would be able to re-broadcast later in full 16:9 if you so choose.

For SD, DVCPRO50 is your best choice. But if you ever want to display in HD, shoot in DVCPROHD.

[Alvise Tedesco]

you're saying better to give an anamorphic master to broadcaster and let them provide proper letterboxed 4/3 framing?

[Pascal_Parvex]

For JPEGs, use http://www.imageshack.us Upload your picture there, and then post the last link you get there (direct link to your uploaded image) here.

[Alvise Tedesco]

dv 600%
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6589/dvgrab8hf.jpg

dv50 (scaled to dv) 600%
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/3980/dv50overdv3wq.jpg

1080i50 (scaled to dv) 300%
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6906/1080ioverdv8gg.jpg

dv50 and 1080i scaled in FCP ("Best " from the Motion Filtering Quality pop-up, sequence settings)

[Alvise Tedesco]

And thanks for the link, Pascal

[Pascal_Parvex]

And thanks for the link, Pascal

You're welcome.

[monolith]

This is loco.

Shoot HD.

Please. I beg of you. Clients be damned.