Well we didn’t use a hard drive to film, we used miniDV. Isn’t the transfer only if you record on a hard drive?
Thanks for all the advice. We finally were able to capture on the 1080i setting that you recommended. We’re thinking now that it’s just the film grain. The monitor might be part of the issue too, although we’ve never had HD footage look this bad in the past. Do you know anything about this particular camera? We’re wondering if we had it on the wrong setting and that caused the quality to be less?