Mixing interlaced and Progressive

[John Lewis]

can Edius handle this.
The reason I am asking My cameras are currently Sony FX1, V1, A1 and HD 1000 all 1080i or 1440X1080i. I wish tom purchase a small camera and whitled down to 2 AVCHD cameras the Sony XR520VE and Panasonic HDC-HS300 but find the spec confusing, if they turn out to be progressive can i mix in Edius i will be upgrading to I7 proc so will be able to use the convertor to copy to Canopus HQ

[drgagx]

I believe that the Panasonic only shoots interlaced as follows:
HA/HG: 1920 x 1080/50i, HX: 1920 x 1080/50i, HE: 1440 x 1080/50i.

[mattie]

It will work without any errors, basically, throw anything onto a timeline and Edius will sort it all out for ya...

BUT..

you may not end up with the 'quality' you had hoped for depending what your final output is.

50/60p Progressive footage converts nicely to interlaced 50/60i but going other way round will introduce de-interlacing artifacts (but Edius is very good at deinterlacing)