What mode to use - 60i vs 24p

[canon-hv20-user]

I will receive tonight my HV20 and I am leaving on a trip. I need urgently to decide which shooting mode to use - 60i or 24p.

After the trip I will capture all DV tapes on a Hard drive, process the movie with editing program (Adobe Premier Pro or Elements). Let's ignore the issues with capturing 24p and think that they will be resolved by the time of editing the movie. The footage then will be then encoded with some HD codec.

I will play the movie on a PC connected to HDTV or on the PC's monitor itself (never on old TV). I will be shooting mostly scenery, not much fast movement, mostly in clear daylight and strong sunshine.

Please give me your advise.
Your help is much appreciated.
Thanks,

[bruny]

It's all about the look you want. I shot samples both inside and outside on 60i, 24p and 24p + the Cine setting. I thought the 24p (no Cine) had a nice look about it. I burned a DVD of all 3 options and played it on my laptop (Macbook Pro), my wife's PC and the progressive-capable DVD player downstairs that is hooked up to a 7 year old Sony Wega 27".

Out of all of them, I liked the 24p normal the best, and on the TV, my wife liked the 60i footage the best, but on either PC she liked the 24p (no cine) the best. I think the Cine setting softened stuff up too much...especially when watching a DVD with virtually the same content in 3 different ways.

I think 24p has a little more organic (and, dare I say it: film-like) motion to it. The 60i footage is more...what's the word....immediate...more in-your-face-live-footage type look or something...it looks...well, like video!

So it really comes down to taste. If you really don't know if you will know the difference, then save the pulldown headaches and go with 60i. which, can actually function as 30p if you have your shutter speed (Tv setting) set to 1/30... :-)

I think the best part about this is you are deciding between two variations of "awesome" when it comes to your final footage!

[duzzit_madder]

...you are deciding between two variations of "awesome" when it comes to your final footage!

Here, here!

Thanks for the nfo bruny. Any chance you can upload a couple seconds worth of your three way tests?

[Tomtebo]

BrunY: thanks for that info, i have wondered sometime now! :)