Shooting in progressive mode

Selecting 1080/30P or 1080/24P in the REC FORMAT option (Page 51) of the setting menu SCENE FILE screen enables shooting in progressive mode.

30P mode:

Shoot 30 frames a second in the progressive mode.

For output and recording, the 30-frame-per- second signal is converted to 60-field-per-second interlace.

This mode gives you high quality images.

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24P mode:

Shoot 24 frames a second in the progressive mode.

The video signal will be recorded natively. However, the external output signal is converted to a 2:3 format, 60 fps interlaced signal.

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25P mode:

Shoots 25 frames a second in the progressive mode.

For output and recording of video signal, the 25-frame-per-second image is converted to 50-field-per-second interlace signal.

This mode gives high quality images.

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Note the following when shooting in progressive mode.

•Set the shutter speed to 1/50 (OFF) for best results.

•There may be a slight delay to the start of recording when you use the 24P mode because 4 frames are recorded at a time.

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