Well they are played back from a 1200 or 1400 when the system is set to 59.94. There was also an option on Avid to remove redundant frames on capture. I don't recall if that was firewire capture only. The format always records all 60 fps but they are redundant frames. I don't know if varicam is unique but it has to record the redundant frames as a 2:3 pulldown when it's running in 24 frame mode. How else could it record 60 fps with the redundant frames?
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Wilson Chao <wilsonchao@...> wrote:
>
> The 24 frames are flagged as "real" and the other 36 frames are
> ignored. (I don't know if they are blank, but it doesn't matter since
> they aren't played back.) The Varicam doesn't record a 3:2 pulldown
> onto its DVCProHD VTR.
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:42 PM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@...> wrote:
> Is it really blank? I thought it always record 60fps but in 24 mode
> there were redundant frames recorded in a 2:3 pulldown, don't know if
> advanced pulldown is an option.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Wilson Chao <wilsonchao@> wrote:
> > >
> > > What's confusing is that the 900 takes the medium cassette and the
> > > Varicam takes the large cassette, but they both max out at 30-ish
> > > minutes as the Varicam runs the tape twice as fast. To add insult to
> > > injury, most of the DVCProHD I see is shot at 24p, which means that
> > > 60% of the recorded tape footprint is blank.
>
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