[MacDV] Re: PAL or NTSC (long) was: The quality of 8MM film

[Paul Williams]

Ah!

Great info! You all are filling in the blanks for me. I appreciate 
all this info!

Thank you,

Paul

>NTSC is 525 lines and PAL is 625 lines. More lines, better picture.
>PAL is Phase Alternating which means the Hue doesn't change, it's locked,
>unlike NTSC, which is sometimes referred to as "Never The Same Color twice".
>
>OTOH, PAL's 25 f/sec means that you are scanning fewer lines since NTSC
>scans at 29.97 f/sec.
>
>As for camera recommendations in the $3K range, there are really only a few
>by each major manufacturer. Most of the reviews I have read on LAFCPUG,
>Creative Cow, and 2-Pop praise the Sony PD150, the Canon GL2, the Panasonic
>24P camera, and there's also a 3 chip JVC that's in the same price range
>(not the "HD", a regular miniDV camera)
>
>The people who are trying to make real movies like the Canon XL1 for it's
>changeable lens (most films are shot with a fixed lens, not a zoom lens) and
>the XL1 is the only handycam style camera to take different lenses.
>
>The PD150 is switchable between miniDV and DVCam, and it also has
>addressable timecode, which is nice if you are shooting a lot of tape. You
>can change the start timecode of each tape to reflect the reel number.
>It also has two XLR (audio) connections, which is very helpful.
>
>You really can't buy a camera without holding it in your hands and trying it
>out. You need to feel whether the controls are comfortable, etc. If you like
>the way a camera fits your hands, any of the three chips will be relatively
>similar in picture quality.
>
>  my .02
>
>  sb
>
>
>On 7/28/03 6:33 PM, "Paul Williams" <mulder at fred.net> wrote:
>
>>  Which is a better DV format NTSC or PAL? Also, if you had, lets say,
>>  $3,000 to burn on a digital video camera to use in FCP or FCE, where
>>  could you find a good, solid, objective rating of the available
>>  cameras out there. I've been looking at the compatibility page at the
>>  mac site (http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/qualification.html), but
>>  where do you start narrowing down which one to use?
>>
>>  Paul
>>
>>>>   Heres my question: When i discuss transferring these 8mm reels to a
>>>>   format, what format should i get them transferred to so i may
>>>>   continue my work on FCP, FCE or some other editor you might suiggest?
>>>
>>>  Get them transferred to whatever DV tape format you can work with -- be it
>>>  miniDV or Digital8.  Do not get it on DVD unless that's the only 
>>>way you can
>>>  get it digitally (DVD will still look TONS better than VHS or SVHS even
>>>  though it's compressed with MPEG2).  But you might just be getting fed the
>>>  signal from a low-end VHS camera into a DV camera, which is far from
>>>  ideal...  But still better than VHS tape I guess?
>
>
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