Question about DVX100's CCDs

honestly i think alot of people on here will recommend shootin 43 then just crop to 169. if your lookin for quality i think the best is to shoot 43 then crop. if you want i can send you a link to a project i did. its like 180 mbs to download but it can show you pretty much the best quality you can get. i shot 43 at 30 frames. apart from "losin" quality doin the crop in post i even uprezzed to HD and it came out beautiful. thats more "loss" in quality

p.s. when i say best quality you can get, i mean from the final cut out from your NLE
 
As compared to what? You can't show 4:3 footage on a 16:9 TV, and you can't show 16:9 footage on a 4:3 TV, so -- how would you compare if there was a loss or not?

With that said, the DVX uses the central 360 lines and stretches them to 16:9 full-frame. As long as you're shooting progressive 24p (or 30p) using THIN line detail, it looks pretty good. It won't look as good as a full-frame 16:9 camcorder though.
 
I suppose my question was way too general. But Barry you answered it. Thanks. It was more about how does it do it.
 
Barry_Green said:
As compared to what? You can't show 4:3 footage on a 16:9 TV, and you can't show 16:9 footage on a 4:3 TV, so -- how would you compare if there was a loss or not?

With that said, the DVX uses the central 360 lines and stretches them to 16:9 full-frame. As long as you're shooting progressive 24p (or 30p) using THIN line detail, it looks pretty good. It won't look as good as a full-frame 16:9 camcorder though.
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when i shoot 43 and crop to 235 i can show it on eigher tv standard or widescreen. i render out letter box mpeg 2 ws wit 43 aspect ratio. on the ws tv it doesnt fill it it puts the huge black bars and has the 235 in the middle. if you render it wit 169 aspect ratio it will fill the ws tv
 
i hate when u shoot 4:3 and then crop. its pointless other than putting black bars on ur frame. the camera doesnt shoot any wider, ur not seeing more of the image. its just a "look." a look that cuts off a bunch of image on the top and bottom of screen that someone would have otherwise liked to see.
 
Well I personally prefer doing the 4:3 workflow because when shooting an event with the plan to give it the widescreen treatment, I can have some insurance to reframe the shot within the letterbox matte.

The squeeze mode makes you lose pixels anyway, why not lose those pixels in post? Is my thinking.

I do the widescreen crop both ways, just adding a matte as well as putting it into a 16:9 format timeline. But since most DVD players can take the 16:9 image and letterbox it for a 4:3 set, I just use that. And DVD is the main distribution medium now, so it works for me.

But of course that's just for my own workflow.

Tell me if I'm doing something stupid.... but please... no flaming.
 
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