480i/30p - You Just Blew My Mind

[Jason_Boone]

I am trying to better understand this mess of formats here on my HVX200a. So please tell me if I am correct in my thoughts here..............


The only reason to shoot 480i/30p instead of 480i/60i is if you are going for the "progressive/film" look. Much like 24p on the DVX. So I assume that the DVX shoots 480i/24p (over 60i). Correct?

Also, I shot 480i/30p the other day, and I when I brought it into a Standard DV-NTSC Premiere project, I got the red render bar of death in the timeline. Didn't understand why. I figured the pulldown in the camera made it ready for a Standard DV-NTSC 60i 29.97fps project, and that it wouldn't need to be rendered.

 

[Cranky]

30p is good for the Web, as few video sites are capable of streaming 60p.

 

[William_Robinette]

There is no pulldown when dealing with 30p. Pulldown is a function of fitting a 24p stream into a 60i stream.

 

[chromeboy007]

I'm new to Premiere Pro but I don't think the red bar means much... it's not like in FCP where a red bar means you HAVE TO render it to even preview it.

 

[Cranky]

There is no pulldown when dealing with 30p.

There is.

With detail set to THICK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#2:2_pulldown
With detail set to THIN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_segmented_frame