The DVCPRO50 Format

DVCPRO50 is an enhanced version of DVCPRO, aimed at the higher-end professional and ENG market. DVCPRO50 cassettes are identified by a blue lid.

DVCPRO50 offers two technical advantages over standard DVCPRO:

• The bitrate is doubled to 50 Mbps
• Colour-sampling resolution is 4:2:2 instead of 4:1:1

The increased data rate means that recording time for DVCPRO50 is half that of standard DVCPRO.

DVCPRO50 is backwards-compatible with standard DVCPRO.