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do think i should mix nstc with pal,

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Uh, no. Jumping from 25fps to 30fps and back in your video would not be a good idea.

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i also need a camera that could record at double speed so i can do a bullet time effect.

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Just use a normal DV camera and slow to half the speed. Most editing systems these days are probably smart enough to split it into two fields and interpolate the extra lines... certainly the half-speed video that Premiere produces doesn't look bad. AFAIR there's one DV camera that will record two half-sized frames at double the usual speed, but there's no real benefit to that that I can see and it will make editing a pain in the butt.

yea, pretty much what Mark said. You don't want to mix PAL and then NTSC together. Why not get the NTSC version of the XL1?

-YO

lilbowrabi,

Couple of points to you answer your questions...

1) Your profile says you're in the UK, in which case there is no reason to consider NTSC equipment. NTSC is an inferior video standard to PAL, and if you need NTSC copies of your film you can always produce them from your PAL version. And using NTSC equipment in the UK will introduce all sorts of unnecessary headaches. Get your hands on a PAL camera (there are plenty on ebay.co.uk).

2) Double speed recording - with video cameras, you apply speed changes in post-production. You don't do this with the camera.

Ben C.

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