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Well as we are continuing to put our checklist together, it should probably surprise no one
that HD does not run at a single frame rate. In fact, it runs at a variety of different
frame rates. In NTSC countries it'll run a 23.98, 29.97, 30, 59.94 and 60.
In PAL countries, it tends to run on the 23.98, 25 and 50.
23.98, which is actually 23.967 just rounded up a little bit, 23.98 is the rate that we
would shoot if we wanted a film look. If we wanted to do film transfers.
Film transfers will also go from 24 frame in film to 23.967 on tape.
The most common speed so are 23.98, 59.94 and 60 for NTSC and 23.98 and 50 for PAL.
Also, to confuse matters even further, some HD formats use drop frame timecode and some
don't. [Sighs] Why should life be easy?
And thinking of an easy life, it's about to get worse.
Because the pixels aren't even square. They're rectangles.
We'll be talking more about that a little later in this title.