[Alan Tailer]

THANK YOU. “Position” doesn’t look like a button, it looks like a heading. Sheesh, thanks again!

[Alan Tailer]

I appreciate everyone’s responses, this board has been VERY helpful. I just purchased an HDV camera, and got so frustrated I was almost on the verge of returning it. (Frustrated trying to figure out the camera AND software AND how they work together, etc) After struggling through a lot of things, I can see it’s going to work well for me, and I thank everyone for their feedback!

[Alan Tailer]

Thanks for the detailed response, Dave…

Actually, I’m just trying to create more pro-looking videos to put online, I thought shooting in HDV would be an improvement, that having a larger-pixel capture would improve the final result even if the final video was 360×240 (or am I wrong about that?)… Or is it more about how the video’s processed AFTER shooting?

I’m not even after the “wide-screen” look, just trying to create some low-budget music videos to put online that don’t look really amateurish. I’m going to have to compare my old DV camera to the HDV I just got to see if it justifies the huge extra hassle I’m having working with the HDV output. Thanks again for your comments, I’ve got a big learning curve ahead of me.

Edit: I guess this is off-topic, but here’s a video claiming to show the difference between DV and HDV:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_GIiU7YQAHc
…Is that legit? (HDV is automatically better even when rendered to 320×240 versus DV), or does that say more about the quality of the camera lense of that specific HDV recorder?