[Bob Dix]

Brian,

I agree with you , we have been using a CF card Canon 5D mark II for over 18 months and it is exceptional, but, we did use a Canon HV20 for tape transfer to a Sony Bravia HDMI prior to blu-ray and it too was exceptional for quality.

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[Bob Dix]

Brian,

I did get some drop outs using consumer mini tape for HDV but, since going to Sony Digital Master HDV/DVCAM PHDVM-63DM there have been no drop outs on the same timeline and none in recording in camera.

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[Bob Dix]

Craig, The only way for me is in the end tape(for the time being), to transfer edited material to blu-ray or tape and the optics on the Hv20 is exceptional, but, the Canon 5D Mark II is definitely top end. From what I read the newer pro-consumer Canon camcorders do transfer at professional rates of data at 25+ Mbps, the Mark II at 38.35Mbps and the up market new Pro units much more than that. It appears the tranfer rate is what captures the quality of the analogue image from the sensor. The 35mm sensor of the Mark II is ten times the size of the typical camcorder and the Pro lens or even the EF series lens are outstanding. .Check out the specs from Canon, the 3CMOS from Panasonic and JVC.
I go back a long way to VHS, S-VHS, Digital 8, Hi-8, SD and now High definition 1920 x 1080 both out of the HV20 , 5D Mark II, which is extra- ordinary,it depends on what you can budget for and what it is for, in the long run.

read some of the other reviews. Everthing will eventually go to HDD, but, editing some of the codec are a problem at the moment, and then you have to Export to something viewable, it is no good leaving it in the camcorder ?

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[Bob Dix]

No, I agree you would you would not have rendering problems with the Canon HV/20/30/40 but, you could and may with H.264 mov files or other codec from Hard Drive AVCHD professional or lesser beasts.

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[Bob Dix]

Have a look at this https://www.donferrario.com/ruether/Canon_HV20-HV30.htm

We have used a Canon HV20/30/40 for 3-4 years it’s codec rate is professional at 25mbps as compared to 15 ? Mbps Hard Drive Camcorders and the diameter of the lens is sufficient to give Professional results, and can be used as a VTR for playing tapes from the Canon XL1. XH G1 or XHA1 according to Canon Specs.It will also give great result from a PP timeline using H.264 MOV files converted from a canon 5D mark II H.264 to Cineform HDV avi, the results Exported to Pro tape and blu-ray is very good indeed.In fact broadcast quality in PAL.

Would you believe my son uses Apple Mac and Final Cut and has run into rendering problems with that set up, we use Windows i7 64 bit Precision T5500 with 12GB Ram Quad Core with Adobe certified video card, I think it would be a NVIDIA Quad FX4800 for Mac.

good luck.

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[Bob Dix]

You will need a 64 Bit i7 computer to handle the large file sizes as earlier versions of PP are only 32 bit and can apparently handle only about 4GB of material ? . We were and still use a Dell Dimension 8400 3.2Ghx 800fsb with hyper-threading and only 2GB Ram in say Photoshop but, no longer for HDV , it would manage the H.264 mov files but, slowly.

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[Bob Dix]

Andrew is right, you must upgrade to Adobe Min specifications for CS5. I still use Premiere Pro 1.5.1, now it used to handle H.264 MOV clips but, eventually gave up all together. But, I had Premiere Elements 4 which does handle mov H.264 files and in less than 4GB bits, but, you >render>Export to Movie> save file> Import into Premiere Pro , it will come in as an Microsoft or Cineform avi file, uncompressed, you can change this >editing on the timeline is pretty easy.

A number of the generic convertors do not translate the codec correctly , and even if you end up with an avi file PP will not like it, that is my experience, but, PP will talk to Premiere Elements as far back as 4 , but, you will need a bigger computer, we run a DEll T5500 Precision Server Quad Core 12 GB Ram with a Adobe Certified Nvidia Quadro FX 3800 Video card, no slow motion in transcoding in the Monitor with this one, and it has revolutionised the old PP.

We will go to CS5 and get away from all this nonsense very soon.

We have been running Canon’s 5D mark II for 18 months now, and the video is sensational in 1920 x 1080i and viewed on a Sony Bravia 46′ Full HD TV

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[Bob Dix]

Click on clip/s ie., Right click> window opens>Clip Speed/Duration alter %, check Maintain Pitch > OK

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[Bob Dix]

That is very good news, I get it right sometimes.It is a great camera. Good shooting.

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[Bob Dix]

Good to see that solved.

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