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Comment on 24P Workflow by Ansel Taft

Ansel Taft — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:52:48 +0000

I think you meant, “Let’s begin:”

Comment 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.

Comment on Canon HV30 – HD Camcorder at its best 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?

Comment on Canon HV30 – HD Camcorder at its best 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.

Comment on Canon HV30 – HD Camcorder at its best 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?

Comment on Canon HV30 – HD Camcorder at its best by aNgelo G

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

@Rob Trujillo: I couldn't agree more.

Comment on Some Tips & Tricks for Adobe Premiere Pro when working with HDV by aNgelo G

aNgelo G — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:45:10 +0000

@Rob Trujillo: I had some audio syncs issues other than dropped frames. When I play the footage in a player like VLC, everything is fine. When I import it in Premiere, at a certain point I have a red screen. At that point I start having audio syncs. It is a bug in Premiere CS4. I think this does not happened in CS3.
In general, if your footage is ok, you are better off exporting the audio in Wave before importing the footage to your NLE.

Premiere doesn’t tell you anything about dropped frames, unless you capture your footage directly from the camera with it.

I am on Windows and Mac. What camera are you using? Again it might be CS3.

Comment on Canon HV30 – HD Camcorder at its best 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.

Comment on Canon HV30 – HD Camcorder at its best 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..

Comment on Some Tips & Tricks for Adobe Premiere Pro when working with HDV by Rob Trujillo

Rob Trujillo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:17:36 +0000

Hi, can you clarify- when you’re having problems syncing, is the reason for the unsynced audio only dropped frames? In other words, if you don’t have any dropped frames, there aren’t sync issues? I’ve never set premiere to abort capture on dropped frames, it just never occured to me, what a GREAT idea! I can’t tell you how many hours i’ve spent sifting through a video looking for where the dropped frames are so i can cut and resync (to audio and the other cameras). Premiere doesn’t tell you how many times frames were dropped or where they are located, just that it dropped X frames.. Thanks for the tip.

FWIW i don’t have problems seeing the capture preview in premiere (cs3) but then, i’m on windows..