[MacDV] Re: questions on progressive scan (2 types)

Jim Asherman jimash at optonline.net
Wed Jun 11 13:20:35 PDT 2003


On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 03:47  PM, Jan E. Schotsman wrote:

>
>
> -------------------- Begin Original Message --------------------
>
> Message text written by Mark M. Florida
>
> "Actually, I disagree.  The most important factor for freezing motion is
> not
> whether it's interlaced or not, but the *shutter speed* of the 
> camera.  A
> higher shutter speed (1/250 sec. or higher) will freeze the motion.  
> And if
> this higher shutter speed was used with a progressive video signal (or 
> even
> "quasi-progressive") that should yield the clearest still frames and 
> slow
> motion possible."
>
>

Now if I edted that signal with FCP and fed it to the philips 
stanadalone DVD would that\
register as :"progressive scan" I am getting curious .
Jim



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