HDV or DVCPRO HD

[Fred Connors jr.]

See this article for a good comparison:

https://www.dvxuser.com/articles/HVX200/

As for KONA support and FinalCut Pro for that matter, the DVCProHD is far and away the better supported format.

Fred

[John Ladle]

it is pretty simple actually. if you are doing post, compositing, mixing other footage in, keying, color correcting, effects–go dvcprohd. if you are just doing straight cuts, you can have fun with HDV and money to spare. also, who are you selling this to? do they even consider HDV to be HD?

[Walter Biscardi]

I’ve not had to deal with HDV to date, but am cutting a ton of DVCPro HD and the format is very easy to work with. Excellent color and the workflow through FCP is very very good.

For Chroma Keying it’s still a compressed format and you will have some difficulty in pulling keys without excellent lighting.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Michael Garber]

I also highly recommend DVCPRO-HD. I’m dealing with a 2-hour HDV project right now. HDV media is ok to deal with while you’re editing. And even though HDV files are smaller, the render times on effects, color correction, etc far surpass that of DVCPRO-HD.

Here’s the difference on a G5 dual 2.5:

1 hr. 30 min. of HDV with color correction and broadcast safe plus some titles = 15 hrs to render
1 hr. 30 min of DVCPRO-HD with color correction and broadcast safe plus some titles = 6 hrs to render

And then you still have to conform the media when going out to tape.