In addition to the usual "flickering" you get with
PS-mode video with motion (and the lowered resolution
with Canon 3-chippers...), which I'm mystified why
some people appear to like, the VX2000 PS-mode is
optimized for stills only, and looks even worse
used for motion video than usual...

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:55:08 GMT, "Rick Popko" wrote:

>I think Progressive scan makes your video more film-like. It also helps when
>you just want to pull a single frame out of your video. Now I could be
>mistaken here, but I thought the VX2000 only did 15fps progressive.
>Television broadcast is 29.97. If you try to broadcast a 15fps tape, it's
>going to strobe like heck and give people headaches. The GL-1 camcorder from
>Canon has 30fps progressive that I think looks pretty good.
>-Rick

>"Neuman - Ruether" wrote in message
>news:3d42fba7.3751147@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu...
>> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 02:30:32 GMT, "Lr"
>> wrote:
>>
>> >My Sony VX-2000 has progressive scan, does this make my video sharper?

>> No, but it does make the motion-video pretty much
>> unwatchable on TV - the Sony PS-mode optimizes the
>> image for stills (only...).
>> David Ruether