Questions before atempting to film on ne Camcorder

[Blast1]

[Gochos] “Do you know how many minutes of footage you can save on a DVD tape on the HDV setting”
HDV is recorded at the same rate as DV

[Gochos] “- Is it worth recording in HDV rather than DV. Will their be much difference in quality”
Yes, you can always down convert to DV if needed and you have the footage for use as HDV, just use decent tapes to reduce dropouts

[Gochos] ” Is it beneficial to film in widescreen or will their be problem with people watching the finished product on a normal square TV?”
Its best to record in widescreen, if output to DVD most players letterbox it for 4:3

[Gochos] “If the finished product is NTSC, im presuming its bets to film in NTSC,”
Its always best to shoot in the format for the finished product.

[Costas Damianou]

Thanks

Why would you whant to downconert from HDV to DVD?

Does it take more processing power and memory using dvd footage?

Thanks Again

[Blast1]

[Gochos] “Why would you whant to downconert from HDV to DVD?”
Alot of people shoot in HDV even if their product is going to be DV, one reason is that you have HDV footage for use later on, Second, downconverted DV tends to look a bit better than straight DV shot in the same cam

[Gochos] “Does it take more processing power and memory using dvd footage?”
When processing HDV natively it takes alot of processing power plus there can be problems with the long GOP, if editing HDV its better to use a intermediate codec like cineform or canopus HQ rather than native HDV(if on a PC)