A710 video frame rate

[nau11]

I've recently bought, in the UK, an A710 IS. It's absolutely brilliant, except for one thing: although I've set the Video System in the menu to PAL, it insists on recording video clips at 480 lines, 30 fps. This, of course, is useless in Europe where PAL uses 576 lines @ 25 fps. Anybody know how to switch it to 25 fps?

[Jon]

Sorry - I don't believe that option exists. You'll have to see what you can do in post-processing.

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[nau11]

You are confusing the options.

Video is recorded at 640 X 480, 320 X 240, or 160 X 120, depending on which mode you select.

For playback on a TV, video plays through the A/V out connector depending on the option selected in the camera Setup Menu under Video System. That is where you select NTSC or PAL for the playback format.

Even the 160 X 120 will be expanded to fill the TV screen.

Hi, thanks for that. The problem remains, however: when setting the Video Standard to 'NTSC' and playing back though an NTSC TV everything is fine. But when switching to 'PAL' and playing back through a PAL TV it looks dreadful. This is because the 640-line, 30fps recording is being played back at 576 lines, 25fps. You get 'stepping' on diagonal lines, and all moving objects judder at a 5fps rate. The camera is effectively performing a very bad standards conversion.

The same problem occurs when looking at the AVI file. Playing it back through Windows Media Player, all is fine, but wen you import it into a video editor to create a PAL programme it looks awful.

It seems that setting the cameras Video Standard changes the playback format but not the record format. This looks like a design fault.

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[nau11]

I think you meant 480-line, not 640-line.

I don’t have a PAL TV so I can’t test it. I haven’t heard of this in other forums so I don’t know if it’s a common problem or something that’s happening just to you. I would try to record the playback and send it to Canon to see what they say about it.

That would be good, but perhaps not as easy as it sounds. I don't suppose you know of anybody sensible at Canon whom I could talk to about this?

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[Jon]

I was thinking more of Canon's regular tech support.

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=SupportDetailAct&fcategoryid=221&modelid=14117
He's in the UK - and TV there is 25 frames/sec. unlike the 30 fps in the US. Hence the problem.