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A new day, a new tape format
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I thought canon can shoot HDV 1080i as well
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FYI, the Sony HDV equipment actually WILL playback JVC 720p30 tapes. It just won’t output it via Firewire, so you’re stuck capturing with analog component.
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[Vladislav] “I thought canon can shoot HDV 1080i as well”
Yeah… But its Canon HDV which is different from Sony HDV and JVC HDV. Everybody reading this needs to understand that each manufacturer has branded HDV for their own equipment, so you have to purchse their equipment to playback their tapes. And if by some odd reason, a Sony machine can read a JVC tape – its just by coincidence. Sony didn’t design the machine to purposely read JVC tapes.
Personally, I think this practice is completely unethical but what are you going to do… All we can do is hope that someone will make a machine that will read all of these derivations of HDV.
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Just a few days ago I tried to play a Sony HDV tape in a Canon XLH1 camera and it didn’t work. I tried to find information on the net about compatibility between the different brand and could not find a word on it.
This is a pretty big problem… it seems normal to me to expect a Sony 1080@60i HDV tape to play in a Canon XLH1 and vice versa. I’m not talking about 24p or cineframe modes, just the bare 1080@60i mode. Working with HDV, it’s always pain…
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Good to know.
We have an event coming up and were going to use two Z1Us and one Canon XLH1 (because of the 20X zoom lens) and were hoping to use our Z1U to capture it into FCP. Sounds like Canon tapes won’t play in our Z1U. -
[Vladislav] “We have an event coming up and were going to use two Z1Us and one Canon XLH1 (because of the 20X zoom lens) and were hoping to use our Z1U to capture it into FCP. Sounds like Canon tapes won’t play in our Z1U.”
Is the only reason for using the Canon XLH1 for the 2x lens? Do you already own the Z1U’s? If so, you can purchase from B&H and Century Optics makes a 1.6 Tele-Converter that will give you the lens you need. It works wonerfully for us.
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Harry,
I’m editing a project that’s going to be shot this weekend on the XLH1. It will be my 1st HDV job. I thought that FCP could already Ingest/capture Canon XLH1 HDV footage natively, but from the sound of pretty much everyone else’s posts except yours, it sound like it’s not possible to do that yet in FCP via firewire.
What is this method you’ve been using to import 24f into FCP DVCProHD via a circuitous method? How exactly does that work?
Also, I’m on FCP 5.0.4. It editing XLH1 HDV footage is possible, do I have to upgrade to 5.1 to be able to it?
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JD Cochran
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Word has it that the imminent release of 5.1.2 will be able to support it natively. Not sure when it will drop though. Supposedly in the very near future, though.
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