On 03 Apr 2001 22:33:22 GMT, tomjr2@aol.com (Tomjr2) wrote:

>Do I need Progessive scan on the DIgital camera I'm going to buy?
>
>I know some will say if I have to ask , NO. But I've read lots of posts lately
>regarding this subjuct, and all it has done is confuse me more. Some making it
>sound great for high speed and digital editing and others saying the opposite.
>The only thing I understand is that if I extract stills, that They will be good
>quality with PS. Other than that I'm lost.
>
>I will be using the camera for normal home and family use and editing on the
>PC. Can someone tell me what the real world difference Progressive Scan would
>make.

This has been covered MANY times lately...!
Basically: for best results for viewing on a TV,
use interlaced mode (since that is what TV is...);
for computer-only viewing, for capturing stills
from motion-video, **maybe** for web streaming
(I don't think this last is useful, since in the
process of processing footage, deinterlacing is
going to happen anyway...), and **maybe** for
transfers to film (rare and unlikely, and some
say interlaceed original works best for this,
anyway...), you may want to shoot PS-mode - BUT,
if you do, you will permanently degrade the
image-motion render-quality of the footage for
TV-viewing compared with what it would have
looked like shot interlaced. In other words,
shoot interlaced unless you have a VERY SPECIFIC
reason for not doing so!
So, there! ;-)