Re: The video standard burden: buying an NTSC camera for europe

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
        [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaze) writes:
> I got it all wrong!
> 
> Can anyone tell me what is the resolution of the output signal, that
> is, of the recorded material in an NTSC camcorder and in a PAL one?
> What will be the resolution of the material when i directly transfer
> it to the computer?
>
For PAL scanrates, you have 50Hz 720x576i
For NTSC scanrates, you have 60Hz 720x480i

The tradeoff of spatial resolution is made directly
based upon temporal resolution.  (i.e. the linerates
are nearly identical.)

John