http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Forums Tag: HDV en Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:26:05 +0000 http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-gy-hd100u-film-and-motion-look#post-39321 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:29:03 +0000 MikeLopez 39321@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Hello gentleman,</p> <p>I am planing to shoot my first music video on a JVC GY-HD100U, the music video will have a final output on DVD.  I am looking for advise as far is approaching the film motion and look, camera settings as well. I had read articles about shooting 60! to later convert to 24p, is it better than shooting straight 24p?. Also the HDV format. Can anyone post any experiences with 10801, 1080p, 720p and their respectives frame rates and quality?. I had done a test with my JVC GY-HD100U shooting at 24p, I was disappointed of the image quality, I get something like image trails, and it looks really bad.</p> <p>Thanks in advance</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-hd100-not-recognized-by-nles#post-38884 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:07:35 +0000 thewatcher 38884@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Yeah, it's starting to sound like I got a raw deal on the camera.  Still, I've found some cheap HDV cameras on ebay (and a few cheap HDV decks), but will they maintain 24 fps (or even work at all) when I play back my 24p MiniDV tapes?  Neither the cameras nor the decks have 24p listed as one of their capabilities; they're either 30 or 60p. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-hd100-not-recognized-by-nles#post-38875 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:43:18 +0000 robgrauert 38875@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> yea. you should be able to put the tape into a cheaper camcorder with no quality loss. Also, try looking for a used HDV deck, that is, if you will trust the previous user. Seems you may have been screwed with your purchase of this used camera. </p> <p> I've read that the reason why Firewire ports can burn out like yours did is because of the sudden jolt of electricity that goes to the port once you plug it in. The port could also burn out on your computer. So the best thing to do is plug in your camcorder and turn it on while the computer is off. Then don't turn off your camcorder that your using as a deck...ever.</p> <p> I have a miniDV deck connected to my computer and I never turn it off.  </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-hd100-not-recognized-by-nles#post-38872 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:30:50 +0000 thewatcher 38872@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I finally sent the camera to JVC out of frustration... apparently the firewire circuit has been shorted either by myself or the previous owner.  As much as I relish the thought of paying the $1,928.17 I was quoted to replace the mainboard, I was curious if anyone knows of any cheap workarounds. </p> <p>I simply don't have the funds to purchase an HDV deck outright, but I was curious if I could put a MiniDV tape with 24p HDV footage into a cheap consumer handheld HDV camcorder and use that as a replacement deck.  Any thoughts or better suggestions?</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-hd100-not-recognized-by-nles#post-38283 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:34:22 +0000 thewatcher 38283@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I just tried HDVSplit, but that didn't recognize the camera either.</p> <p> I'll try giving Vegas another go...</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-hd100-not-recognized-by-nles#post-38255 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:14:53 +0000 Johnboy 38255@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>you should be using the internal capture utility in Vegas to capture HDV, if that still doesn't do it try hdvsplit to capture, it's free.</p> <p>John</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-hd100-not-recognized-by-nles#post-38253 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:07:26 +0000 thewatcher 38253@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I recently acquired a used (but in excellent condition) JVC HD100U.  Everything seems to work fine on the camera, but the problem I (and apparently half the people who own this type of camera) have is that I cannot capture 720 24p HDV footage in ANY NLE program.</p> <p>I've been scouring the internet for a solution to the problem... I currently use Final Cut Pro 6.0, which has no problem recognizing the HD100 when it's set to DV mode, but when set to 24p it simply cannot even find the camera.</p> <p>Being lucky enough to have several friends with PC's, I tried my luck with Sony Vegas 8.  That too failed to recognize the camera.</p> <p>I've tried numerous workarounds (neither HDVxDV nor DVHSCap recognizes the camera either), but nothing seems to work.  I'd assume that the Firewire port on the camera was malfunctioning if it weren't for the fact that it works fine in DV mode...</p> <p>Again, it seems bizarre that instead of failing to import footage properly (dropped frames, lack of timecode, etc.), no NLE will even see that my camera is connected.</p> <p>Does anyone have any other suggestions?  Is there some setting on the camera for outputting HDV that I need to change?</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/can-hd-camera-record-in-sd#post-37294 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:19:56 +0000 chrisColorado 37294@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The canon XH A1 is a pretty good camera that i used on my last film. We shot in SD I think. It's a nice camera, if you like miniDV, which I do not.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/can-hd-camera-record-in-sd#post-37281 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:44:50 +0000 robgrauert 37281@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> hmm...im surprised the XH-A1 shoots SD too. It doesn't say that in B&amp;H. Well that's pretty sweet.</p> <p> </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/can-hd-camera-record-in-sd#post-37275 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:52:56 +0000 FrankieBoy 37275@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi!</p> <p>I just got my XH-A1 a week ago after reading heaps about it first and checking out lots of beautiful videos on Vimeo.</p> <p>I don't know where you get the idea that the XH-A1 doesn't shoot SD??? It SHOOTS SD in either 4x3 or full 16x9 as well as giving you the option of SHOOTING in HD and outputting that footage as SD DV if you don't have the software or hardware to edit HD. That's a good option, leaving you the original tapes still in HD, in case you some time in the future wanna edit them in HD.</p> <p>So yes, you have THREE options of getting SD out of the XH-A1.  =) I'm an old BIIIG fan of the DVX100 and was very close to buying it - even in these times of HD - but finally bumped into the XH-A1 on the net and having read LOTS about it + mainly watching a lot of videos shot on it, decided it's a better option, giving me more options than the DVX100. I have never had any problems with the DVX100 SD image, except for the fact that it doesn't have true 16x9 capture. I was even thinking of buying the cam and later the anamorphic lens for it, but once the XH-A1 came down to the same price as a brand new DVX100B, the choice wasn't hard. I have been considering the HVX200, too, but it only shoots HD on SP2 cards, which are insanely expensive. Compare that to capturing HD on regular MiniDV tapes. For any longer shooting yo can save all of the original stuff, without any need to constantly download everything off the cards. Alsoif yo find comparisons on the net, you can see that the XH-A1 shoots better low light footage than the HVX200.</p> <p>The XH-A1 is a good cam, best in its price range. And more manual controls than many more expensive cameras.</p> <p>-F-</p> <p> ;)</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/can-hd-camera-record-in-sd#post-36826 Sun, 25 May 2008 23:48:23 +0000 robgrauert 36826@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Why do you need one that shoots both? Why do you want to avoid shooting and editing in HD and then down converting to SD when you're all done editing? Doing that gives you really nice SD anyway. </p> <p>I'm just curious.... </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/can-hd-camera-record-in-sd#post-36816 Sun, 25 May 2008 21:18:58 +0000 awes125 36816@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks Rob. I've got a DVX100B right now and I'm extremely happy with the SD quality on it, I was just hoping that HD was something that I may be able to add to the mix of what I can offer. It's a shame that the XH A1 is such a great camera but can't even shoot in SD! Especially since they haven't even really decided on an official media for HD yet.</p> <p>I would LOVE the HVX200 if I had the budget for it. Maybe the FX1, I think it can shoot BOTH SD and HD. Hmmm...</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/can-hd-camera-record-in-sd#post-36811 Sun, 25 May 2008 20:11:04 +0000 robgrauert 36811@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Nope. I just checked bhphotovideo.com and that camera doesn't shoot SD. Some cameras do shoot SD and HD. The Panasonic HVX200 does. So with a little more research, you may be able to find the right camera. </p> <p>You can always shoot and edit in HD and then down convert to SD. I've never done that before because I haven't yet worked with HD, but I couldn't imagine it taking very long. Doing that will make for very nice looking SD as well. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/can-hd-camera-record-in-sd#post-36804 Sun, 25 May 2008 16:14:29 +0000 awes125 36804@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>This may be a dumb question, but can all HD video cameras record in Standard Definition as well? I am thinking of getting an HD camera for various projects but would also like to keep shooting some projects in SD and I don't want to have to down convert everytime. Does the Canon XH A1 shoot in SD?</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/matrox-rtx2-le-faq#post-36540 Thu, 15 May 2008 07:10:43 +0000 Videoguy 36540@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Videoguys' Matrox RT.X2 LE FAQ </p> <p>Our Videoguys HD editing experts have been getting a lot of questions about the exciting new Matrox RT.X2 LE and we'd like to share some of the most common answers with you to help you decide to get the Hardware Advantage today! </p> <p>Part I - Introducing Matrox RT.X2 LE </p> <p><em>What is the difference between Matrox RT.X2 LE and other capture cards? </em> </p> <p>Matrox RT.X2 LE is a real-time hardware accelerator. This means that<br /> it is far more powerful then just a simple Input/Output capture card.<br /> With Matrox RT.X2 LE you get real-time performance that goes beyond<br /> what you can accomplish from software alone. </p> <p><em>Can I edit HDV footage with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 on its own? Why doI need a Matrox RT.X2 LE? </em> </p> <p>Although Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 software alone can edit HDV footage,<br /> it's not going to give you the same smooth, quick editing environment<br /> you are used to with DV footage. Not only does HD footage contain more<br /> pixels and bits of information, the compressions used put a huge<br /> burden on your systems resources. Matrox RT.X2 LE alleviates this<br /> burden and editing HDV footage is a breeze. It is BETTER because it is<br /> real-time! </p> <p><em>So what exactly do you mean by real-time?</em> </p> <p>Matrox RT.X2 LE hardware allows you to play back multiple layers of HD<br /> video and graphics directly from the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 timeline<br /> without rendering. That includes adding filters, transitions and<br /> special effects. That's something that software can't do on its own,<br /> even with the fastest quad core computers. For example; our DIY 6 Quad<br /> Core machine with Matrox RT.X2 LE can play back a timeline that<br /> includes two layers of HDV video with a slow motion filter on one<br /> layer and color filters on the other, as well as a graphic overlay.<br /> This plays back in real-time, directly from the timeline, with no<br /> rendering! </p> <p>For the rest of the RT.X2  FAQ, follow this link <a href="http://www.videoguys.com/rtx2le_faq.html">http://www.videoguys.com/rtx2le_faq.html</a> </p> <p>Gary </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-good-is-the-hd-of-hdv-compared-to-real-hd#post-36239 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:16:47 +0000 TheDVshow 36239@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Good points, Oscar. Many video pros are standing with their hands on their hips wondering the same thing.</p> <p>Now that the Blu-Ray wars are over you are now able to burn your material for high quality viewing- that is if your client has a player.</p> <p>Yes, the HD workflow is still a little primitive out of the gate, but in the long run iIt will be more cost-efficient to go HD when everything from home movies to cable to game systems are switched over.</p> <p><a href="http://thedvshow.com/faq-pro/index.php?action=article&amp;cat_id=011&amp;id=559&amp;lang=" rel="nofollow">http://thedvshow.com/faq-pro/index.php?action=article&amp;cat_id=011&amp;id=559&amp;lang=</a></p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-good-is-the-hd-of-hdv-compared-to-real-hd#post-36237 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:41:00 +0000 Oscar27 36237@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks RS, well I HAVE shot HDV, pass it to standard on the editing system and then put it on a standard DVD, it just looks like regular video.. but as I mentioned I thought that the reason was because I am not encoding or editing as HDV, I dont have the equipment yet, thats why I want to know if I make ALL THIS INVESTMENT upgrading my editing system to HD I will be getting BETTER quality or compared to what the Cinealta shoots when the client sees it on a regular DVD, if I wont then what is even the point on making all this investment?</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-good-is-the-hd-of-hdv-compared-to-real-hd#post-36235 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:17:26 +0000 RScottyL 36235@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>First of all, full HD is 1920x1080. HDV is limited to 1440x1080.</p> <p>I would recommend that anytime you need to take footage and eventually make it to a dvd, that you shoot in the highest resolution possible. So, in your case, shooting in HDV and then converting to SD will look better than originally shooting in SD and keeping in SD. You are starting with more information with the HDV footage before compressing it to a standard dvd.</p> <p>Also, you have to remember that footage shot in full HD on a commercial camera will usually always look better than anything shot on HDV, as it is starting with more information than HDV.</p> <p>What I would recommend, is that if you can find someone one here that you trust and know that has an HDV camcorder......have them shoot some footage in HDV and then send you just a normal SD DVD of the footage and let you judge for yourself.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-good-is-the-hd-of-hdv-compared-to-real-hd#post-36233 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:48:55 +0000 Oscar27 36233@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have a Sony V1U camera that obiously as most of you know records on HDV, I work doing commercials in Miami and I have not been 'advertising' as if I can deliver HD because I don't have the editing system to process HD....well I am making a big investment buying a new editing system so I will be able to shoot HDV and edit....BUT my question is....</p> <p> One of my clients that is an agency recently shot a commercial with a competition of mine on HD, not HDV, but with the real HD camera Sony Cinealta. the production company gave the agency a DVD copy of the spot and when I saw it I must admit it looks very very nice, certainly  A LOT better than regular standard definition video.</p> <p> My question is how good is the quality that I will be getting shooting and editing HDV compared to what I saw on real HD?, how good will the video look when I deliver a DVD to the client?... what I DO NOT want to happen is that I make all this investment to convert to HDV and advertise that I can deliver HD but then when I deliver a DVD copy to the client, it just looks like standard video.... I DO NOT want this agency to show me my DVD of his commercial that I just produced that is "supposedly" on HD quality and then show me the other DVD that my competition did on HD quality and tell me "are you trying to rob me? this is not HD...THAT (pointing at my competition) is HD!"</p> <p> Please advice....</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/computer-specs-for-hdv-editing#post-36133 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:15:59 +0000 RScottyL 36133@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Here are the main points for the hardware requirement for Premiere Pro CS3:</p> <li>Intel® Pentium® 4, (1.4GHz processor for DV; 3.4GHz processor for HDV), Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon® (dual 2.8GHz processors for HD), Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor; SSE2-enabled processor required for AMD systems.</li> <li>1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD</li> <li>Dedicated 7,200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred.</li> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hdv-for-web-video#post-36131 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:55:35 +0000 RScottyL 36131@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>If your budget will allow it, and you are in the market for a camcorder, then I would suggest going for an HD camcorder. Even if your end product is not HD, then the footage will still look better than if completely shot in SD.</p> <p>If you have never worked with HD footage before, you need to also make sure you have an editing program capable of working with HD, as well as a computer that is powerful enough to work with it.</p> <p>As far as computer requirements, here is what Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 recommends:</p> <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs/">http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs/</a></p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hdv#post-35870 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:18:54 +0000 RScottyL 35870@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Not sure of all camcorders, but I know the Canon HV20/HV30 have an HDMI connection on it, and it allows you to capture the full 1920x1080 video stream in real time. Unfortunately, the drawback of this is that you will need a very fast computer to be able to handle the bitrate, and you will need an HDMI capture card.</p> <p>Also, you might want to list what software you are using to try to capture in real time, and maybe we can get more responses for you.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/computer-specs-for-hdv-editing#post-35778 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:18:01 +0000 Johnboy 35778@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>you can use a dual core system, if you are doing hdv, go ahead and bump up the ram.  obviously, a quad core system would be ideal as it's faster than a dual core system.</p> <p>John</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/computer-specs-for-hdv-editing#post-35774 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:07:18 +0000 jm 35774@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I am new to HDV and also purchased a Sony HC7.  I want to buy a computer that will be able to capture and render HDV videos using the Sony Vegas Movie Platinum. According to the system requirements for the Sony Vegas it needs at least 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 computer to capture in HDV. I am not sure if that applies to a duo core or quad core processors. Does it mean that the processors need to be 2.8Ghz on a duo core or quad core? Can I get a 3.0Ghz Pentium single core processor and get the same performance?  There are a lot of computers right now that are on sale with a 2.4Ghz Quad Core Pentium (Q6600) , would this be good enough to capture and render videos. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hdv#post-35592 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:37:00 +0000 Irmantasn 35592@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>We need be able capture real time HD video stream through computer. At shop we have tried "Firewire" connection with a lot of camcoders but we were able capture only "DV" video stream not high definition video (we are interested in get 1080p25 stream). On the computer we used default drivers and AMCAP application.</p> <p> Any ideas how to capture HDV in real time to the computer?</p> <p>Irmantas</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hd-stock-footage-of-englandtimelapse-and-more-1#post-35278 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:32:50 +0000 findonovanedits 35278@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I'D LIKE TO SEE A SECTION ON YOUR SITE FOR SELLING HD STOCK FOOTAGE.</p> <p>PLEASE GOOGLE FINDONOVANEDITS FOR MORE INFO.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/hd-stock-footage-of-englandtimelapse-and-more#post-35274 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:18:28 +0000 findonovanedits 35274@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>hi is anyone looking for affordable hd stock footage - 2DVDS/15clips on each/ only £150 or £200 (including P&amp;P in UK only).</p> <p>I would like to offer my footage to anyone interested. all footage can easily be imported into FCP. All Footage is HDV 1080i and royality free.</p> <p>please contact me or google findonovanedits for more info.</p> <p>thanks </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/snow-motion#post-35261 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:59:04 +0000 disjecta 35261@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Hi all,</p> <p> Here's a short piece I did when it snowed recently in my area. Shot on a Canon XHA1 using the Letus Extreme 35mm adapter and, for the movement, I used an IndiSlider (available from Indifocus.com)</p> <p><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/709560" rel="nofollow">http://www.vimeo.com/709560</a> </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/xh-a1-vs-hdr-v1u#post-35245 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:42:45 +0000 hansengrantf 35245@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>We are building a new worship center that seats 1500+ people, and the cameras that we buy now we will be stuck with for a number of years.  So if we don't go hi def we wont for a long time.  thanks for recommending the VX2100, but it is lacking in the zoom at only 12x. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/xh-a1-vs-hdr-v1u#post-35240 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:11:22 +0000 Ken 35240@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I saw some hanging chads on the floor. Must have come from the poll reader. :D </p> <p>hansengrantf,</p> <p>I'm tempted to vote for the V1U, since that would be much better for what I want to do.  But different videomakers have different needs. I suspect the A1 is the better choice for your needs. From what I've read, the A1 will have slightly better low-light performance. And you can save a couple hundred dollars by getting the A1 instead of the V1U.  Sure, the V1U should have slightly better color, but Canon aint no slouch in the color department.  BTW, are you really sure you need hi def?  If not, the Sony VX2100 would be a great choice for low-light work.</p> <p>Ken</p>