videobear
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Dec 1, 2004, 9:34 AM
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Re: [wildaces] Frame mode DV to DVD mpeg
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Canon? That's good, sort of. Canon's "frame movie mode" is a 30 fps capture mode, but it's not true progressive scan. Here's a description from an article by Michael Pappas:
"...the captured frames vertical resolution is increased because the two interlaced fields of a single frame capture are not scanned at separate points of time like normal 60 field video captures. The odd and even fields are simultaneously captured all at once at 1/60 of a second in the Frame Movie Mode."
Here's the link to Mike's article. http://www.dvinfo.net/...rticles/article1.php. There's a ton of other Canon info, especially on the GL2's big brother, the XL1, on the host site. There's also a companion site specifically for the GL2 at http://www.dvinfo.net/canongl2/index.php
The important thing in your situation is to realize that 1) frame mode is NOT progressive scan, and 2) even if it were, you're planning on viewing this on a video monitor, which is interlaced anyway (unless, of course, you plan to use an LCD TV, a computer monitor, or a projector. These devices are capable of progressive display). So it won't hurt to encode as "lower field first". Your video will still have the "movie look" that Canon's frame mode provides.
Regards,
Doug Graham
Panda Productions
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