David, I didn’t know there was anything lost on an HD set. When I see a 1080 project on my Panasonic monitor, it doesn’t look like anything is missing, am I wrong?
Actually it’s called clock wipe, you could make the circle out of text, something round like Futura, make sure it’s exactly centered at the size you want, then you could move it anywhere over the map. Would take about a minute or two to do.
To add to Chris’ post, it’s the playback standard in the VCR menu you need to set to HDV, and I believe the default is to Auto, not DV. Do this BEFORE you connect the FireWire to the camera.
Since I asked you, I went into Episode Pro and found a program stream that seems to work great, looks as sharp as the 8bit uncompressed file, only 26 megs!