This is good advice, though not applicable to current
Sony camcorders - the PS-mode of these has been optimized
specifically for the still-photo mode, and generally
it looks very bad for motion-video (color saturation,
sharpening, etc. look wrong, in addition to the
non-interlacing problems with TV-viewing...).

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:10:08 +0100, "Dieter Reinersmann"
wrote:

>Determine by destination of the video:
>If it is beeing watched on a regular TV (=interlaced) only, don't take
>progressive scan, it does not benefit at all.
>If you produce for computer monitors (=non-interlaced) it is highly
>recommended to use progressive scan, because interlaced video simply looks
>bad on monitors.

>"newbie44" wrote in message
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>> My video camera has progressive scan mode - when would I use this?
>> Does it produce better results?