24p all the time?

[Elmer_Lang]

I like the 24p in Cinemode. I don't have an HD monitor. I was wondering if there's anything wrong with using 24p all the time and just leaving it in the 60i stream when editing and outputting to web, dvd, minidv. I hear there's problems with WMV but rarely use that.

It looks fine to me. Excepting framerate problems (motion, whatever) I can't 'see' any reason to switch. Or am I wrong?

best,
elmer

 

[vsansal]

I like the 24p in Cinemode. I don't have an HD monitor. I was wondering if there's anything wrong with using 24p all the time and just leaving it in the 60i stream when editing and outputting to web, dvd, minidv. I hear there's problems with WMV but rarely use that.

It looks fine to me. Excepting framerate problems (motion, whatever) I can't 'see' any reason to switch. Or am I wrong?

best,
elmer

As you know 24p mode uses 2:3 pulldown method to record 24p in a 60i signal. It repeats 1 frame out of every 4 frames. So it becomes 30p (with the repeated frames).

Then it is separated as odd and even frames and recorded as 60i. If you don't remove the pulldown this means in one second you will have 4 repated frames. If you are not intrested in removing the pulldown, I will suggest you to use 60i mode since you are not really using 24p mode. If you want to eliminate the interlacing artifacts and don't want to deal with 2:3 pulldown removal, record 60i and de-interlace it as 30p.