How are you outputting your HV20's great HD footage?

[marshallarts]

After you're done editing, when it's allllll done and looking good, what are you doing with your footage (other than leaving it on your computer because you don't know what to do with it)?

Downconverting to SD than burning to DVD?

Burning straight to DVD (is that even an option?)?

[Lunchbox]

What I will do

- export the standard m2t file
- print that m2t file back to tape for backup purpose
- export to SD MPEG-2 to burn DVD
- export a higher resolution WMV for internet distribution
- export a low resolution WMV and upload to youtube to share

[wolferic]

check this link out:

www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/hd_dvds_on_sd_dvds_young.html

I am waiting for the studio here to buy a bluray burner. But for now, I have been printing back to tape.

[JustRewind]

But for now, I have been printing back to tape.

For some reason I can't get FCP 6 to output to my HV20. It captures from it just fine but seems to not allow me to send HD back to the tape at all. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

[wolferic]

DavE -

Check this thread: Canon HV20 User Forum > Editing > Mac Editing
Reload this Page Problems with 'Print to Tape' in FCP 5.1.4 (sorry, still don't know how to paste a direct link)

ALSO: make sure that AV > DV (analogue to digital) is turned OFF in the menu: otherwise, you can not INPUT via firewire, only OUTPUT to the computer

Let me know it you need more info. It took me several days of trying on and off before I got it to work.

[Adriano Apefos]

Hi, I have a hd footage from xh-a1 and it is in mac HDV codec. I would like to know if someone can help me to transcode it to a wmv or mpg file in very high resolution to became possible to see in PC windows computers. the file is 280MB. thanks.

[africanmarty]

Let me know it you need more info. It took me several days of trying on and off before I got it to work.

could you explaine to me how you did this, with what app and setting with the hv20. thanks - Marty.

[Everett22]

Are all of you who are printing back to tape, deinterlacing and removing the pulldown to edit the footage and then printing back to tape?

If so, how does it look when you view it on your TV through the camera after the footage has been deinterlaced and the pulldown removed?

I want to start printing to tape from FCP but I'm wondering how that will work after I've removed the pulldown.

Thanks for your help.

[bluegrass]

My tapes never get reused and thus become the master backup however just for organization and faster accesability purposes I have started to capture all my HD tapes to my computer in HDV format and than write them back out to a portable USB 320gig drive. So far I have purchased 6 of them at $100 each. I figure I can at least store about 20 tapes or so on one drive. This not only gives me a second backup but it also gives me faster access to the raw data for editing in my NLE. I will keep each copy of the tape in it's own folder and also save out project files, titles, wmv, etc into the same folder of each tape. I was trying to figure out a way to really organize my 250 tapes and growing and concluded that there just wasn't a readily available shelving unit that fit this need. I think I will store the tapes away in boxes and I can line up about 10 or so HD drives on a shelf near my computer. I will catalog everything to a drive number for fast lookup and retrieval of videos.

I do occasionally create an hour long DVD in standard DV format but everything I record is HD. I don't see any benefit of recording SD on a camera that is capable of recording HD. I can down convert now for immediate usage and have HD available for when a better distribution chanel becomes available. I think for those of you writing back to tape might find out that it is as cheap or cheaper to archive a second backup to a hard disk rather than tape.

[lwm99]

What I will do

- export the standard m2t file
- print that m2t file back to tape for backup purpose
- export to SD MPEG-2 to burn DVD
- export a higher resolution WMV for internet distribution
- export a low resolution WMV and upload to youtube to share
Copy the m2t files to a normal DVD and play on a Sony PS3. That I think is the easiest and the most convenient way to see your HD video.

[wolferic]

Are all of you who are printing back to tape, deinterlacing and removing the pulldown to edit the footage and then printing back to tape?

If so, how does it look when you view it on your TV through the camera after the footage has been deinterlaced and the pulldown removed?

I want to start printing to tape from FCP but I'm wondering how that will work after I've removed the pulldown.

Thanks for your help.

Can't help you with the pulldown problems as I am using PAL 25p so I don't have that worry.

[HDNUT]

Copy the m2t files to a normal DVD and play on a Sony PS3. That I think is the easiest and the most convenient way to see your HD video.


First time poster here, got the HV20 and been very happy with it so far, the lack of being able to burn content to a disc via HD-DVD or Blu-Ray is pissing me off but I do own a PS3.. I also have a 500 gig hard drive attached to my PS3 could I just burn the "M2t" files to that drive and have the PS3 play them back, also what program are you using to burn M2t files, I currently am using
Final Cut Express HD and iMovie both newer and older versions. Thanks for all the helpful info on this board to all, glad I found this place. :)

[lwm99]

First time poster here, got the HV20 and been very happy with it so far, the lack of being able to burn content to a disc via HD-DVD or Blu-Ray is pissing me off but I do own a PS3.. I also have a 500 gig hard drive attached to my PS3 could I just burn the "M2t" files to that drive and have the PS3 play them back, also what program are you using to burn M2t files, I currently am using
Final Cut Express HD and iMovie both newer and older versions. Thanks for all the helpful info on this board to all, glad I found this place. :)
PS3 will play m2t files as they are. So you can either copy the m2t files to the PS3 HDD (through network, USB, etc.), or burn a normal data DVD with m2t files and play it on the PS3 drive. You can simply use the software that comes with your DVD burner. I am not familiar with Mac and the two video editing software that you mentioned, hope I don't give wrong advice here. :hv20-smilie03: