Quote: I'm aware that PD does not support 24p frame rate. What undesirable effects will show up when editing 24p?
If the camera is setup for the film look, gamma, shutter speed etc, will you be able to tell any difference between shooting at 24fps or 30?

Depends.

Just shooting in 24P does not give a 'film' look. Many video cameras shoot 24P, a lot of Point and shoot cameras with a movie mode shoot 24P.

I have not found any undesirable effects in using my G12 camera that only shoots 1280x720/24p. Matter of fact it sometimes looks very sharp.

I cannot tell much difference between the video from the Point & shoot and my Canon 1920x1080/60i video camera.
The main difference is the video size, 720p vs 1080i.

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Thank you Carl

I'm not too sure about this 24p business, I usually go by the fact that video shot in the PAL colour system has 25 frames per second and video shot in NTSC colour system has 30 frames per second. This variance is due to the line frequency of the power supply(not how many volts) Our Australian power supply is delivered at 50Hz(cycles per second) while I the USA and Canada, the power is delivered at 60Hz. Basically it works out at 1 frame of image for each two cycles of power delivered.

A bit of history here: In 1972, the Australian Government announced that Colour TV would come to Australia in three years from a date to be determined. That date was 1st March. In the intervening three years the stations geared up for the switch, acquiring all the necessary bits, cameras, monitors, image mixing desks - the whole kit and caboodle! Even as early as 1972 it was the government's decision that the system we would adopt was the German PAL system as it was the proven superior colour TV broadcast system out of all three. The American NTSC system still had phase-shift problems and the French SECAM system was so awfully bad that they couldn't even use it in their studios(the French won't admit it but they had to equip their studios in PAL, then transcode the signal to SECAM at the transmitter). In late October, 1974 the stations started test transmissions in colour - sports events like the 1974 Melbourne Cup, cricket test matches and such, entertainment shows like Young Talent Time, The Mike Walsh Show, soapies, like the infamous Number 96, all manner of Aussie and overseas shows were given brief glimpses, then came the big day, 1st March, 1975... And we haven't looked back!