We have recently purchased a Panasonic AJ-HD1400
DVCPRO HD deck at work - it’s a confusing and complex beast. I’ll try to share a little about what I’ve learned so far.

My experience to this point with DVCPRO HD has been limited. I’ve worked with the media in various forms, but have only had a very limited involvement with the decks and cameras.

The main selling points for the AJ-HD1400 over the earlier 1200 are that it supports, natively, framerate conversion and CineGamma gamma settings.

In the PAL world we like to produce things in 25FPS rates - meaning we’d tend to shoot 720p25 with DVCPRO HD - which is really an ‘offspeed’ framerate (specifically it has to be 25p over 60fps).

The HD1400 supports this rate natively with it’s 25HD setting.

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