[Pete Burger]

If I remember correctly, the menus show on the video output via the cinch connector. So you “just” have to grab that signal somehow

[Pete Burger]

John, how do you handle colour-correcting? Also in Premiere?

For me, AE was to this point the only solution, because of the different overlay modes (blending the HDV footage in soft-light mode with itself in variing transpanrencies, drives the HDV footage quite well in the “right” direction).

[Pete Burger]

Well, before we had two DSLR’s we shot a couple of imagefilms with the Canon 7D and the Sony HVR-V1 HDV Camcorder and what I learned in mixing the formats is: If you can avoid it, don’t do it 😉
Editing/colour-correcting was quite a big deal, because not only did the footage look totally different, Premiere also had problems with mixing the codecs…

In short I did the following:

– Converting the footage of both cameras into a high-quality codec like Quicktime “Animation”.
– Editing it in Premiere (with use of no effects, transitions, etc…)
– Importing the sequence into After Effects
– Colour-correcting in After Effects
– Putting in all transitions, effects etc (still in After Effects)
– Exporting…

For our last “mixed” shoots we planned the films in a way that we used the different cameras for different parts of the film, so I didn’t have the problem to use mixed footage for one scene.

Hope this helps.

[Pete Burger]

AFAIK you can’t export to an HD-Codec with CS3 with the standard installation. But you can export via Media Encoder as Quicktime with all of the parameters(frame width/height, codec etc.)set to your liking and then compress the video with a different application like SUPER. I haven’t tried it, but I read something about installing some Decklink (Blackmagic design) drivers, even if you don’t have the proper hardware installed and then being able to export true HD. Don’t know if that works…