Can HVX PAL Shoot 24pn?

B

BrenMyster

Well-known member
I have a friend who own's a NTSC HVX and he can shoot 24pn but me being a englishman wants to get a PAL version when i return to the UK.

I see that the PAL version shoots 25p but does it shoot 24pn?
 
Last edited:
the PAL version can shoot 24 fps with the frame rate hack, if that is what you are looking to do.

oh, and vice versa.... the NTSC version can shoot 25 fps with the same frame rate hack.

over and out........
 
PAL 25p is just fine for everything, for PAL tv it is perfect (as far as progressive goes on an interlaced system), for film transfer 4% speed difference does not matter. (24fps movies are shown at 25 in Europe, nobody notices or complanes)
 
I heard in a lecture by an industry professional that 25p is better for a film transfer. Now I can't remember why that is, exactly, but there you go.
 
But remember it is not real 24p on the PAL model, and no audio will be recorded by the cameral.

25p is fine for movies.

- Derrick
 
rob@headland said:
I heard in a lecture by an industry professional that 25p is better for a film transfer. Now I can't remember why that is, exactly, but there you go.
Click to expand...

A couple of possibilities --

It could be referring to older camera technology. Back before the DVX and the advent of affordable 24p, people used to shoot with cameras like the XL1s and use the "frame" mode, which interpolated interlaced footage and recorded them as progessive. In this case, the PAL version (at 25p) was greatly preferable to the NTSC version (30p) for transfer to 24 fps film.

Or, he might be referring to transfer to 25 fps film, in which case, 25p would be better than 24p, of course.

But for transfer to 24 fps film, 24p is best.
 
Derrick_SA said:
But remember it is not real 24p on the PAL model, and no audio will be recorded by the cameral.

25p is fine for movies.

- Derrick
Click to expand...


I haven't had to worry about sound since we always had a sound recordist laying down on DAT or hard disk or whatever he was laying down sound onto, but I believe you are correct.
the hack won't allow off speed sound recording.
Eric
 
The preference of PAL over NTSC for film transfer was due to the slightly higher resoloution of PAL. It's really kind of a non-issue if you're shooting in HD. Even though the PAL HVX's CCD's have a higher pixel count than the NTSC version I haven't heard anything in regards to difference in quality between the two.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top