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After talking with different people - I have been given two setting to look at and now turning to the Hvx group for their feed back or choices (one more thing - I'm shooting on the HVX200A with Redrock M2/Micro x W/ Nikon Lens;

720p/24pn

or

1080i/24pa

Plan - it has to be set up to transfer to film easily and also blue ray. The footage has to look top notch.

Thanks to all,

Any New Zealander with the same set up on this form?
 
I am pretty sure everyone is going to say...

If you can get away with 1080 storage wise, you might as well do it.

720 looks great, and going up to 1080 will only get you a small amount of resolution difference, but if you have the storage space, you might as well, ehh?

Ryan
 
Go 1080. If you were using a Pal camera, you would get 1440x1080 at 25p, vs 1280x1080 in ntsc at 24p.
 
Shooter; What I have set up is HP laptop with 300 GB Hard drive with 4 GB Ram. Editing on Vegas Pro 8. Not sure how well this system is going to work out. I have always been a Mac guy but decided that I wanted to work with Vegas since I have heard great things about it so it was time to get a PC.

I was going with 1080i 24pa but someone said that I would be better off going with 720p 24pn. Not too much in difference in visual but much easier to work with and more time on the P2 card.

I'm just learning this kind of format so I'm in the dark.
 
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The compression is also more "efficient" in 1080 than in 720, meaning that as well as gaining about 15 % resolution, you will also gain a compression that suffers from less artifacting that lends to better detail rendering in far off landscapes.

My rule of thumb for me is to try and shoot 1080 if not needing to overcrank/undercrank when shooting for quality HD delivery. If the shot features close up subject matter with shallow depth of field or non detailed background, I think you can get away with shooting 720. The 1080 really becomes more significant when trying to get smaller detail, typically background or landscape detail, resolved within the shot.
 
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