Do you use 1080p as a deliverable or 720?

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iunknown

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If dslr barely resolve 500, what are people burning to their bluray disks for deliverables? Do you use 720 to have more control over compositions if the quality is not that different?
 
For events I usually do 720, since it allows me to correct a lot of issues that can come up in live, uncontrolled situations. For shots I had control of I go 1080, and I haven't had a serious resolution problem since the GH1 hack.
 
iunknown said:
If dslr barely resolve 500, what are people burning to their bluray disks for deliverables? Do you use 720 to have more control over compositions if the quality is not that different?
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How does delivering in 720 give you more control over composition if you're concerned about the resolution of DSLRs being 500 lines?
 
How does delivering in 720 give you more control over composition if you're concerned about the resolution of DSLRs being 500 lines?
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This is something I still haven't understood completely yet. So you get a 1080 frame, but the 5d accomplishes through aliasing maybe? I tested it out last night and the image was basically the same.
You get more control because when you are re framing you are compressing the image down to whatever is needed to compose the shot at 720. So when stabalizing an image, it doesn't matter that part of your image border goes black because the 1080 image at 100% is just as good of a image quality as 720 and you can just crop out the shifting borders.
 
iunknown said:
If dslr barely resolve 500, what are people burning to their bluray disks for deliverables? Do you use 720 to have more control over compositions if the quality is not that different?
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where have you seen that the DSLRs only resolve 500? 500 lines? really?!
 
jdv said:
Distributors will require 1080p - even if it was actually shot in 720.
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Not necessarily. This is why there is no single answer to the question. If you're going to send to a broadcast or cable facility, you really need to check their individual specs. That will answer the original question.
 
Considering the price of HDcam masters from even the cheapest places that's true; however, you can always scale down from 720p.... So unless you're committed to only one or two channels (ones that accept 720), and can only afford one master, 1080 wins.

If you're doing narrative films, the answer will always be 1080.
 
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