Video Collector said:

zombie84 said:

You are right, but PAL speedup has nothing to do with whether it was camcorded or not.

I must, respectfully, disagree. A camcorded movie would have no PAL speedup, even if it was shot with a PAL camera.

Think about it, if a movie had been camcorded from a 24fps projection, the runtime of the recording would be the same wether it was captured on a PAL camcorder or an NTSC one.

Let me put it this way, it would take 2 hours to camcord a 2 hour movie, no matter if you were using a PAL or an NTSC camera. When played back, the recording would clock in at the same 2 hours regardless.

The Empire boot plays back at the faster framerate (4% faster than the theatrical runtime), which means, almost certainly, that it was captured at 24fps and is played back at 25fps. Capturing 24fps for video can only be done on a telecine (or a scanner). Ergo: Not camcorded.

I believe that when this was done Video was incapable of 24fps.

Is not video closer to 29 or 30 frames per second ?

I mean on Beta or VHS of the time period. Of course with Blu ray you can have 24fps.