1080p on HVX200

[GTVideo]

Hey,

Bare with me if I come across as being completely illiterate, it's just I need some help and don't fully understand everything involved. I have been trying to work through this problem on HVX200 for the past week and it's hard to get any clear cut answers.

I'm shooting a movie on HXV200 in 1080i/24p advanced. With the advanced mode I don't get any visible interlacing which makes for a smoother and clearer picture when I have lots of movement. From a marketing perspective, it is important that my movie can be presented as being in 1080p, but not essential. Is shooting in the 1080i/24p advanced mode essentially 1080p? For instance, I read this quote on the forum:


THoff wrote:

Recording modes like 1080i/24PA use progressive images that are embedded in an interlaced transport stream. While the image is stored as two separate odd and even line half-frames, you still have a true progressive image where the entire frame was captured at the same point in time.

If not, is there a simple way to process this 1080i/24P advanced footage into 1080p in post production?

Thanks in advance for any advice or clarification you can provide.

 

[THoff]

1080pA is a form of 1080p. Each frame is simply stored in two halves, and as long as your NLE is aware of it, it will be visually indistinguishable from other forms of progressive video. You can author a 24p Blu-Ray from it if you wish, in which case the image is stored as a single frame.

It's no different than cameras that shoot progressive to DV tape, like the DVX. DV25 is always stored in half-frames, so when the DVX shoots progressive, it takes an entire frame imaged at the same point in time, and stores it on tape as two interlaced half-frames which are edited as pairs in your NLE.

 

[bgundu]

Yes the 1080p Advanced on the HVX works exactly like 24pA on the DVX100. When capturing on you NLE, it will remove the redundant frames and leave you with the progressive 24 frames. If you are using FCP, make sure you have the prefs set to "remove advanced pulldown and duplicate frames" in the Log and Capture window.