Is The HVX200 A True Progressive Cam?

It's nothing BUT progressive. It can't even scan interlaced. In order to make interlaced video, it takes two progressive frames and slices them in half to make fields.

The HVX is all-progressive all the time.
 
Barry:

If that's right, what are these guys talking about? :

http://www.urbanfox.tv/articles/cameras/c33hdv_review.html

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If you are on a low budget and want to make video look like film make sure the camera shoots true 24p or 25p. The JVC HD100 and HD101 does. The Sony Z1 and Canon XLH1 do not. The Sony has a cineframe option and Canon just calls it Frame and refer to it in its specs as 25f (to distinguish it from true progressive - 25p). See Adam Wilt's site for his explanation on what Sony's cineframe is all about. The jury is still out on how Panasonic will process 24/25p.

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proximity said:
Barry:

If that's right, what are these guys talking about? :

http://www.urbanfox.tv/articles/cameras/c33hdv_review.html

quote from URL:

If you are on a low budget and want to make video look like film make sure the camera shoots true 24p or 25p. The JVC HD100 and HD101 does. The Sony Z1 and Canon XLH1 do not. The Sony has a cineframe option and Canon just calls it Frame and refer to it in its specs as 25f (to distinguish it from true progressive - 25p). See Adam Wilt's site for his explanation on what Sony's cineframe is all about. The jury is still out on how Panasonic will process 24/25p.

Last updated in February...
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Even though there is an "updated February 2006" notation near the top of the article, a great deal of the information is dated. The article has constant "(as of August 2005)" blurbs making me feel that the entire article has NOT been updated as noted. It seems that only that first paragraph on the top of the page is part of the update.
 
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I have no idea what they're talking about. What I have told you is information that comes straight from the engineers who designed the unit -- I've talked to one of the Panasonic camera engineers at DV Expo and grilled him about the processing. The chip is progressive and only progressive, and that's all it does: progressive. In order to get interlaced, it splits and combines fields from two progressive frames. To get 1080/60i, it actually internally runs at 1080/60p, then splits and divides two 60p frames to turn them into fields, which it combines at the 59.94 field rate to make 1080/60i.

When they say "the jury is out", perhaps it's their own jury seeing as they're in Europe and the camera hasn't been released there yet, so they haven't had time to personally observe what it does? But that doesn't change the facts of what it does. The facts are what they are, and they're plainly available.
 
I have shot side by side with an HVX and my Z1, and the Z1 gets moire' and other interlaced artifacting that the HVX does not.
 
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