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Posted by Richard Crowley on 09/27/80 11:48
"Toby" wrote ...
> "Richard Crowley" wrote...
>> "jho" wrote ...
>>> I'm making a 30 sec. commercial and want to achieve a high quality
>>> commercial with a limited budget ($2000). Does anyone know if DVCPRO50
>>> comes anywhere near 35mm or another format that is inexpensive and high
>>> quality?
>>
>> No NTSC (or PAL) television format recorded by ANY method
>> comes anywhere near close to the native resolution of 35mm film.
>> NTSC, for example, uses 345600 pixels (720x480) whereas 35mm
>> film is regularly scanned at "2K" (2048 x 1556) or "4K" (4096 x 3112)
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_resolution
>>
>> OTOH, don't see how you could shoot either 35mm or DVCpro50
>> on a $2K budget.
>
> Richard, how about using a prosumer HDV, such as the Sony Z1 in HD mode?
> I've only ever shot with it in SD mode, but I've heard good things about
> its HDV capabilities, apart from motion artifacts in MPEG2. Still no match
> for 35, but probably higher resolution than any SD format. Anybody out
> there used HDV?
I thought you said you were shooting "a commercial"?
Are you producing in a widescreen format? You didn't
mention it before.
Else, IMHO "HDV" is actually lower quality than regular "DV"
because it is more highly compressed to fit all that much more
video into the same tape bandwidth. HDV is at the opposite
end of the spectrum from 35mm film with DV somewhere in
the middle.
If you are shooting something for release on an SD TV channel,
you'd be better off using the best mini-DV camera you can find.
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