30fps Compact Digital Cameras In PAL Countries No Problem!

Seven months ago I got a Lumix FX60 still camera which shoots 1280x720 HD at 30fps.
As I use PAL the 30fps was a problem and I went to great lengths to convert it in various ways.
These processes were time-consuming and the results were not perfect.
However, I need not have bothered as AVCHD discs and standard DVDs made using 30fps play perfectly on PAL players and TVs as long as the files are encoded in Compressor.
Using QT Movie files on their own to make a DVD appears to result in slightly unsteady motion.
So perhaps it is no problem if you have Compressor and DVDSP. I haven't tried iDVD or Toast.

Actually I edited it in FCP and the final version that goes on the DVD is 30fps.
My point was that PAL players and TVs seem to handle 30fps with no problems whatsoever.
Hitherto, I had been converting the 30fps to 25fps in 2 different ways in Compressor (as I assumed that 30fps would be a disaster).
One way was simply to make the video play back at 25fps which had the disadvantage of slowing it down slightly by 20%.
The other way was to convert which involved interpolation, which as usual, did not result in perfectly smooth video and also took a long time.

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Later versions of the iSight camera have 1.3mp resolutions and the latest are HD.
However iChat only sends a max size or 640 X 480 picture and that is dependent on your Processor and Internet Speed. (And to some extent that of your Buddies)
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