I think it's a fairly safe bet that shooting in progressive scan on the TRV900 is *not* a good idea if you intend to transfer to film. Moving down to 24fps from video's 30fps (or 29.97) is one thing, but the Sony only does 15fps in progressive mode.(posted 9255 days ago)As for the XL1, although in theory it should be possible to get a better image from the 30fps frame mode, I haven't heard of any video to film transfer facilities that will work with this format yet.
- John