

and you can't use either of them in iMovie HD. The "progressive" scan rates are designed to do two things. [See Adam Wilt's comprehensive explanations These are not true 24 or 30 frames per second shooting modes, but they use chunks of the normal 60 half-frames-per-second (USA) - or 50 half-frames-per-second (Europe) - scan rates to 'build' artificially constructed 24p and 30p (or 25p) frames.
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In the USA, the FX-1 has a slightly different specification from in Europe: the USA version has 24p and 30p ("progressive") scan facilities in Europe that's 25p instead of 30p, because European TV has a scan rate of 25 frames per second, instead of the USA rate of 30 frames per second. Interlaced.) and it also shoots in normal standard definition DV - digital video - which is, in the USA and other countries which use USA-style video, 720x480 pixels per frame, and in PAL (European) countries that means the slightly higher resolution 720x576 pixels per frame.

The FX-1 t shoots in HDV 1080i (."1080" meaning 1440x1080 pixels per frame - that's higher resolution than normal video - and "i" meaning IMovie HD, unlike earlier versions of iMovie, can specifically handle 16:9 ('widescreen') video. IMovie HD was really written (.it's an upgraded version of the previous versions of iMovie.) specially to work with the FX-1. IMovie HD is called "iMovie HD" because it can handle (.import, edit and export.) HD.
