HD Camera?

[Dangerous]

Yes but you are still recording in full res, wheras interlaced you are only recording @ 1920x540 throwing away half the horizontal res and deinterlacing unavoidably causes artifacts.

Nah I record in 1080i which is Width 1440 pixels * height 1080 pixels.

If I am upload I tend to use the following settings:

General Summary:
Output: Compressed
Average Kbps: Variable

Video Summary:
Codec: Windows Media Video 9
Encoding Passes: Two
Bitrate Mode: Variable Constrained
Allow interlaced processing: Off

Audio Summary:
Codec: Windows Media Audio 9.1 Professional
Encoding Passes: Two
Bitrate Mode: Variable Constrained

Metadata Summary:
Title: Nürburg in the Snow
Author: Dangerous for Production HD
Copyright: Production HD - www.dangly.co.uk

Audiences Summary:
Target 1
Decoder Complexity: Auto
Frame Rate [fps]: 25
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Same As Project
Frame Width [pixels]: 720
Frame Height [pixels]: 576
Keyframe Interval [seconds]: 4
Buffer Size [seconds]: Default
Average Video Bitrate: 1500.00 (low quality)
Peak Video Bitrate: 5000.00 (medium quality)
Peak Video Buffer Size: 5.00 (low quality)
Audio Format: 128 kbps, 48 kHz, 2 channel 24 bit VBR
Peak Audio Bitrate: 129.00 (low quality)
Peak Audio Buffer Size: 5.00 (medium quality)

If you only want to send your footage to PCs then fine

 

[Energize]

Nah I record in 1080i which is Width 1440 pixels * height 1080 pixels.

If I am upload I tend to use the following settings:



If you only want to send your footage to PCs then fine

If its interlaced you lose half the horizontal resolution. The camera records 2 frames in 1440x1080 and then reduces them to half the height, then interlaces them together to get a 1440x1080 frame. So while there are 50 frames they have been reduced in res.

 

[Caged]

I think the basic message here is that if you compressed to MPEG4 on the fly, then edited it, then printed it back to tape / watched it, it would look gash.

Also, you don't have any other option for HD unless you fancy using P2 cards and whatever Sony came up with.