Comments on: Canon HV30 – HD Camcorder at its best

By: aNgelo G

aNgelo G — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:52:37 +0000

@Ryan C: Firewire and miniDV is the same thing, image gets compressed. HDMI will bypass the DV compression. Will most people see the difference...no. Unless you present it in 1080p, it won't make much of a difference for most. As for keying, that is a different story. Because you are getting less compression in the color spectrum, keying will be 100x easier.

By: Ryan C

Ryan C — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:36:51 +0000

So is the quality far away better than capturing through fire wire?

By: aNgelo G

aNgelo G — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:20:39 +0000

@Ryan C: Yes. You need an intensity card: http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/ If you are capturing uncompressed footage, you will need a hard drive that can capture around 140MB/s, so you need a good Raid setup.
I will be creating myself a capturing station in a few weeks/months and I will review it on my new blog.
Oh yea, and you need lots of HDD space + a good CPU. Take a look at the min recommendation for hardware.

By: Ryan C

Ryan C — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:12:13 +0000

So are you saying it’s possible to capture from the hv30 to PP Cs4 via HDMI?

By: aNgelo G

aNgelo G — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:47:35 +0000

@Rob Trujillo: I couldn't agree more.

By: Rob Trujillo

Rob Trujillo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:30:35 +0000

Also, yes, dropped frames are a PITA when sync is an issue. But you can always cut the dropped frames out and resync the video, not really a problem unless there are more then a few.

By: Rob Trujillo

Rob Trujillo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:28:10 +0000

Thanks, i read that link just now. On types of tapes, i read alot about problems people were having on their cameras when they used tape from different manufactures, i think each manufacturer makes tapes that work better in machines they make. There used to be issues with heads clogging when people used tape from different mfg.’s in their camera, but as far as i can tell, that’s not a problem anymore. I like tape because it’s a backup that i don’t have to take time to make, but i’m looking forward to when the manufacturers stop trying to control the market direction by not giving their HDV cameras the ability to record on sdcards/hard drives. I guess market wise, MiniDV is on the way out and they want to push AVCHD as much as they can because it will confuse everyone into buying more stuff, getting more support for it, etc.. I think HDV doesn’t hold as much revenue potential for them since it’s easier to work with..

By: aNgelo G

aNgelo G — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:53:33 +0000

@Rob Trujillo: I did have Sync audio issues, but I think it was bad tape or the fact that I import all the footage on 1 file. You can read here: http://astuff.net/2009/11/05/tipsandtricks/some-tips-tricks-for-adobe-premiere-pro-when-working-with-hdv/
Most of the time, I try to rec via Firewall on my macbook pro, this way I keep what I need and no tape is required.
On tape, you could have issues.
By the way, I read somewhere that dry tapes (Panasonic) are better than wet tapes (Sony).

By: Rob Trujillo

Rob Trujillo — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:32:40 +0000

Actually i do, have you synced HDV with other audio? Any sync problems? I shoot live music, anywhere from 4 to 16 cameras, audio off the board, mixed with ambients. So far no sync problems working with minidv, but i haven’t heard much on that with HDV, i’m hoping that means there aren’t any sync issues..

Thanks

Rob

By: aNgelo G

aNgelo G — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:48:27 +0000

@Rob Trujillo: Cool. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate.
I’ll posting on this blog once Videotoolbox.net is ready.
Take Care