Just went through this debacle this weekend.
HDV is sluggish and a bit of pain in general…
Rendering takes almost three times as longer than DVCPROHD.
However, i must say it doesn’t look terrible and it plays out through the Kona pretty well.
When finished cutting we laid it out in real time to HDCAM, easy.
I never could figure out how to edit back to HDV tape tho… (not like i needed too, but that was annoying)
Looking back, id like not to have to work in that format again in the future (unless it gets converted/new master tapes prior to editing).