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donwidener wrote on 3/25/2006, 8:22 PM
It temporarly increases the frame rate so that when you play back in slow motion you will have more frames to see (at a much slower rate).

Don
jkrepner wrote on 3/27/2006, 7:05 AM
Right, I get that. Just how? I understand how it works on disk based systems and solid state systems, like the XDCAM and Panasonic HVX200, I just don't understand how they get this to work on tape based systems. I think footage from the VariCam (the only slow motion tape-based camera I know of) requires an additional step to extract the slow-motion footage before editing and can't play back the footage in slow-mo directly from the camera, like I'd assume the new XDCAM stuff does.

I wonder if this new feature will find it's way to the next Z1 or FX1? Then I'd have no reason to look at the HVX200.
jkrepner wrote on 3/27/2006, 9:46 AM
According to this thread over on the Sony HDV Forum, the thing shoots 120 frames per second onto RAM for 3 seconds, then writes to tape. Pretty cool. I'm sure we'll be seeing this feature more and more.

Sonyhttp://www.sonyhdvinfo.com/showthread.php?t=3897