F.A.Qs - READ FIRST BEFORE YOU POST

[wolferic]

Eric; If you get the time change "How do I perform pulldown" to "How do I remove pulldown/etc"
Cheers,
Hal

done. thanks for the update.

[Frank]

Couple more possibles:

"Why is my footage 1440 x 1080? I thought I was shooting 1920 x 1080?"

The PAR (pixel aspect ratio) of your HDV footage is 1.333, so 1440 becomes 1920 when properly displayed.
suggested link: http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t...l+aspect+ratio

"Why is my footage 29.976 fps? I thought I was shooting 24P?"

24P on the HV20 is wrapped in a 60i stream.
suggested link: http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t...ht=wrapped+60i

[coilerhv20]

Just bought my HV20 and joined this forum. Great FAQ guys & gals. I was going to ask "what is cine mode" when I stumbled on this thread. Even though it's a sticky, I might suggest changing the title so that it's more obvious that it's an FAQ on the camera itself.

[Lunchbox]

Thanks for putting together this FAQ. I just added a link about which dv tapes to use.

[notlad]

Excellent FAQ thread! Thanks to all of you who put it together for us newbies.

[Lunchbox]

Thanks wolferic for putting this FAQ thread. It helps a lot.

[Frank]

Couple more possibles:

"Why is my footage 1440 x 1080? I thought I was shooting 1920 x 1080?"

The PAR (pixel aspect ratio) of your HDV footage is 1.333, so 1440 becomes 1920 when properly displayed.
suggested link: http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t...l+aspect+ratio

"Why is my footage 29.976 fps? I thought I was shooting 24P?"

24P on the HV20 is wrapped in a 60i stream.
suggested link: http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t...ht=wrapped+60i

I keep seeing these (especially the first one).

[Lunchbox]

Thanks Frank, I updated the fAQ with your suggestion.

[Rikki]

Some quick ideas:

Where can I post HD footage on the net - Vimeo and HV20.info

Which tripod should I buy? - fluid head like the Velbon 7000 or Manfrotto XXXX

Will my PC be able to edit HD? - mention specs that will be able to and recommended specs that definately will

[VideJo]

Will my PC be able to edit HD? - mention specs that will be able to and recommended specs that definately will

I think this not easily done.
To begin with, there are huge differences in System Requirements per NLE. Vegas for instance does not make use of the processor of the graphic card and Pinnacle Studio states much higher system requirements than others.
Maybe it would be better to place links to the sites of various NLE's, where the system requirements are to be found.

[Rikki]

True, though I know that my AMD 64 3500+ with 2gb of RAM wouldnt handle HD very well where as my Quad Core with 4gb does.

[ovale]

Hi, maybe could be useful to add this to the FAQ:

Q: I connected my HV20 via USB to my PC and nothing happens.
A: Be sure that a memory card is inside the miniSD slot.

[jmalmsten]

Hmmm... just a curious question that was asked and never answered in another thread:

What's the equality in focal lengths between regular 35 mm film lenses and the HV20. By what factor should one multiply to get the 35 equal of the HV20?

Mattias wrote that

"a 1/2.7" sensor is 5.3 mm wide, academy aperture 21 mm, s35 24 mm, 135 stills 36 mm. divide and multiply for equivalents."

But my math skills left me at my last math lecture... which was about 3 years ago...

[jmalmsten]

Ok, I sat down today and suddenly the whole 35-to-HV20-lens thing clicked... After some jotting down and calculations I came up with a shorthand and a number of factors to multiply with if you ever find yourself in the same situations as I did... So, if the calculations are correct these should be accurate down to a micrometer at least and feel free to add them to the FAQ so that we won't need to stand there without answers should the director ask us what the equivalent focal lengths is to 35mm... (or imax or 8mm or whatever)

Zoom range equality between HV20 and various 35mm formats are as follows:

135 SLR = 41,48 mm to 414,8 mm || 27,37 to 273,7 mm * factor = 6,8
Super35 = 27,7 mm to 277 mm || 18.28 to 182.8 mm * factor = 4,54
Academy Standard = 24,22 to 242 mm || 15,98 mm to 159.8 mm * factor = 3,97

And just for the heck of it, bordering on the verge of silliness:

single 8mm film = 6.53 mm to 65.3 mm || 4.3 mm to 43 mm *factor = 1.07
Super8 film = 7.14 mm to 71.4 mm || 4.71 mm to 47.1 mm *factor = 1.17
standard 16mm film = 11.78 mm to 117.8 mm || 7.77 mm to 77.7 mm *factor = 1.93
super16 film = 14.4 mm to 144 mm || 9.5 mm to 95 mm *factor = 2.36
65 millimeter Todd AO = 60,51 mm to 605.1 mm || 39.93 mm to 399.3 mm *Factor: 9,92
IMAX horisontal 70 mm = 79.97 mm to 799.7 mm || 52.78 mm to 527.8 mm *factor = 13.11
* with Raynox 6600 PRO .66 converter.

[MovieBlog]

I just discovered the pinned FAQ and this thread. For #3, the text and link to HDVSplit seem messed up. I suggest that be corrected?

[Lunchbox]

Thank you for spotting the error. It has been fixed.

[kirk837]

In FAQ 11b, I believe you should add:


At half the price of Neo, you can try TMPGEnc for pullup
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress & Pulldown - Part II

[bluegrass]

DavidHu - If you took a liking to the AVCHD format, than you should probably look into returning your HV30 and purchase the HF10 when it comes out.

The 1440 is not Canon thing. It is part of the specification of HDV recording format. Welcome to the HV20 forum. Hope this helps.

[Erik Bien]

Our newbies seem generally polite and well intentioned, but anyone who hasn't seen it should watch How to Behave on an Internet Forum for entertainment value alone.

[Rumpelgeist]

What are these "PF", "p", "F" and "PsF" frame rates and how to use them? See this info on Sony HDV camcorders: http://www.sony.ca/hdv/files/white/H...ive_Primer.pdf
Mentally replace Sony's Native Progressive Recording Mode with Canon's "F" mode and Sony's Progressive Scan Mode with Canon's "PF" mode. Discard Cineframe crap altogether. The doc is not very well and concisely written, but is valuable nevertheless.

Note that 24A is not the same as Panasonic's 24A and neither of these modes is applicable to Canon camcorders: "24A has a different meaning in the HVR-V1, Z7 and S270 NTSC models. These camcorder’s “24A” setting embeds markers in the HDV1080/60i recorded stream in order for the NLE software to identify and remove 2:3 pull-down frames." Crap! This ruins the world that I've built for myself. After a long research I concluded that only real 24p can have pulldown flags for interlaced output, now it seems that 60i output has some flags for 24p recovery. Are they pulldown flags? Whatever else flags? My world is in rubble.

P.S. "Native Progressive Recording has been called 24F/25F/30F in some camcorders,
while actually using interlace CCD imagers." -- funny.

[hazemabdulrab]

whats a canon hv30?.........please explain in detail........and yes im an pro vid editor

[Lunchbox]

whats a canon hv30?.........please explain in detail........and yes im an pro vid editor

I'm not sure if you are serious or not. Otherwise, you should go to canon web site to check out what is HV30.

[MajorHavoc]

Geekd,
Not to get off topic, but you're right HV20 and S2Ki have a lot in common!
I've been on S2Ki for 6 or 7 years!!

Krane, that is an excellent start.

I am a member of several forums. One, in particular is very good and informative, (http://s2ki.com - for owners of the Honda S2000 sports car). It is very similar to this forum in that it gets a lot of newbies asking the same questions. It has a sticky like this, with links, and it does help to cut down on duplicate posts. They still happen, tho.

But when they do happen, the moderators can link the sticky, and lock the thread.

Sigh. Cars, music & video. I have expensive hobbies. Like the Canon HV20, the Honda S2000 is the best bang for your buck item in it's class, and the best before you get into the "real" money. It's not surprising that items like these inspire great enthusiasm in their users, and active and informative forums like this one. As soon as I saw this forum, and how much traffic it gets, I knew the HV20 was the right camera for me.

-geekd

[Paul Tarlevs]

Hey, whenever you guys film, do you ever touch the white balance or leave it at auto and colour correct in your video editing? Like magic bullet because I got that.

[nil]

i'm a new user here, i haven't even bought a cam yet, but i am sure it's going to be an hv30. i was politely redirected to the faqs, which, while very helpful, i agree with the person who said 'i understand why people just post the question again', it's a lot of information.

the idea of having a pop up show up when you post or whatever that says 'if you're about to ask a question about pulldowns, try looking here' is a great idea. i don't know how you could functionally impliment it, but that sort of thing could really help.

about the welcome email, someone suggested putting it there. come on, now, did you read the welcome email? you know how it is...

Mal if you're reading...

See if there is a VB modification that will display a custom message to anyone posting a message that has say less than 15 posts.

That message (in big red letters) would say:

If you have a question about the HV20 that falls into the following general categories :

...
...
...
...
(the list above)

Then please read this thread to avoid cluttering up the forum with repeat questions.