Just Ordered My DVX100, questions

[mattmatheson]

Okay I just ordered my DVX100a, won the bid at 1950, what a year huh, and I have a few questions.

I always assumed that 24p was 24 frames a second conformed to 29.97, and that 24pA was 23.976 footage for editing on 23.976 timeline. As I've been reading I find that not the case, they both are 29.97. I really want to work in a 23.976 timeline because I'm never going to be having any 60i stuff in there so... What do I need to do.

And when shooting 30p I always assumed that it was just deinterlacing the 60i footage in camera, but it seems to have better quality than that? How does it work. The only time I'm ever going to be shooting 30p is for shots that are going to be slowed down 80%, so they will be 23.976.

Letterbox, if I use letterbox and magic bullet, won't the lens filter settings bloom over the letterbox, like if I had an over exposed sky in the top of the frame and I had the lens filters on, wouldnt the whites bleed over the top of the letter box?

 

[Joshua Provost]

I always assumed that 24p was 24 frames a second conformed to 29.97, and that 24pA was 23.976 footage for editing on 23.976 timeline. As I've been reading I find that not the case, they both are 29.97. I really want to work in a 23.976 timeline because I'm never going to be having any 60i stuff in there so... What do I need to do.

Either 24p or 24pA can have the pulldown removed, but 24pA will give you better results. It records four full frames and one drop frame. Drop frame gets dropped by your NLE. Simple as that.

And when shooting 30p I always assumed that it was just deinterlacing the 60i footage in camera, but it seems to have better quality than that? How does it work. The only time I'm ever going to be shooting 30p is for shots that are going to be slowed down 80%, so they will be 23.976.

The camera has a progressive chip. 30p and 24p are pure progressive images.

Letterbox, if I use letterbox and magic bullet, won't the lens filter settings bloom over the letterbox, like if I had an over exposed sky in the top of the frame and I had the lens filters on, wouldnt the whites bleed over the top of the letter box?

Yes, you are absolutely correct, I have seen this myself. Letterbox is not a great mode. The only time you'd want to use it is if you were shooting for someone else and had to hand the tape over at end of the day, and they need 4:3 with letterbox. Otherwise, for widescreen, either shoot 4:3 and letterbox in post as a last step, or shoot in Squeeze mode, which is pure anamorphic widescreen footage you can edit in a widescreen timeline.