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NTSC vs. PAL

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hugopeckham
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Hey guys, excuse the stupid question, but it's my first DSLR. I am in Europe and therefore the standard is PAL, but is there any reason not to film in NTSC at 60fps rather than having to settle for 50fps PAL?
Jul 11 2013 9:58PM
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Mag
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Nice to see another brit here.

I'm not gonna go into details as to why they have 50p/60p, and 25p/30p in ntsc/pal, but just know this. You'll want to shoot 60p and 30p, you'd know if you wanted to shoot 50/25. Extra frames are always nice.

I assume you're fairly new to video cameras? if you're shooting at the fridges and you find the video flickering, it's because of the lights, play with your shutter speed and you'll figure out how to get it to stop, can't remember off the top of my head but you'll know.
Jul 11 2013 11:19PM
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Laurent.
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If you film in NTSC in Europe instead of PAL or vice-versa you are screwed.
Companies will never tell you this but there's actually a small logic board in every camera with a chip that detects in which mode you put the camera and then it streams that via 3G to the local feds together with a location based on 3G antenna triangulation.

If the feds find out they will arrest and prosecute you and you have a chance to be locked up and put behind bars for a long time. There is a long history behind this, first America brought out their standardized format 'NTSC' but they were quickly followed by PAL which was imagined by left-wing Europeans backed by the Soviet Union.

It's the last remnant of the cold war, or I'm quite intoxicated.
Jul 11 2013 11:34PM
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hugopeckham
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Yeah I figured as much, just wanted to check I wasn't going to get to finalising an edit and then find out that there was some compatibility issue. Thanks Magnus. Lawrence... whatever you've been enjoying tonight I gotta get some of that, haha.
Jul 12 2013 1:36AM
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