Thick vs Thin- yeah, this question again

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jpastuch

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So I was looking at one of my old posts because I'm shooting B&W in a few months. I want to get a more "cinematic" look rather than video look, but I also want to limit video artifacts, etc.

I'm shooting on the ORIGINAl DVX100 so I'm confused- thick or thin v frequency? Here's the thing- I want the most resolution because I might upconvert it to HD some time in the future. But I also want to be able to watch it like a normal DVD on my old SD interlaced CRTV. Is there a way to have my cake and eat it too? Or is my movie either going to look bad on a TV and good on a computer, or vice versa?
 
Always shoot thin. If you see flicker on an interlaced TV, you can employ a slight vertical blur.

But if you shoot thick, it'll always be blurry.
 
Will the slight vertical blur equal a worse than THICK resolution, or be comparable on an interlaced TV? I mean, I'm certainly taking your advice, just curious.

Seems like THICK is similiar to the 12-bit audio option.

(oh, and thanks for clearing this up)
 
THICK adds a slight blur vertically to reduce interlace flickering, and results in about 360 total lines of resolution.

THIN just lets it all hang out, flickering be darned, and delivers 480 lines.

You could choose the size of the blur you wanted to add. But frankly we always shot THIN on the DVX and rarely had any issues with flicker; if you encounter any, they're easy enough to fix with a little blur.
 
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