Problem in Paradise

Well we've just become the innocent victims of the digital video Format Wars!

If trying to wrap our heads around 24F vs. 24p vs. 60i with Pulldown (be it 2:3:2:3 or 2:3:3:2) wasn't difficult enough; as if trying to grasp 4:2:0 colour sampling, and HDV recorded with a 15-frame GOP compression, with pixel shifting from 1440 horizontal pixels (at aspect of 1.33) to 1920 pixels (st aspect of 1.0) wasn't enough to ask already; we just came to notice that one of our HD cameras doesn't shoot in the same resolution as our other does!

Originally, HD footage was set at a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels (aka 1080i/p -- 'i' meaning 'interlaced', 'p' meaning 'progressive', which relates to framerate; don't worry about that though!), but somewhere along the line, some asshole decided that he was going to create a lesser format with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels (aka 720i/p) and call it HD as well. As you can see, there is a sizable resolution discrepancy between the two formats:
The problem now is that we had scheduled previously for us to use both cameras to shoot shoot some of the scenes and save time on setting up new camera positions for each shot. Now, we have to work twice a hard, and overhaul our daily schedules if we hope to get everything shot in time.

It's going to be an interesting production, that's for sure.... :D

(And yes, I realize that there are maybe 3 people who possibly have the slightest clue about what I'm talking about.)

Other than that, check out our website at http://www.freewebs.com/halivantigua/!
It's just brand spankin' new, and it's got some pictures and stuff on it too!