[Terry Gipson]

Thanks for the feedback. I have stayed away from Canon’s 24f. I’ll try things out to see how it works.

Fumbling my way happily thru the world of HD…

[Terry Gipson]

So after all this I did a clean install with 4GB RAM and life is working smoothly now. Must have been some small gremlin or toad in the system…

Thanks to all for the time and help.

Fumbling my way happily thru the world of HD…

[Terry Gipson]

I can use the M15U fine with my Canon HV20 but my XLA1 tapes do not seem to play well. I get a good recording stream out of the M15U but then it randomly hangs and skips frames so I have just gone back to logging from the XHA1. I get good recording out of PremPro CS3 into the M15U.

I have not found a good resolution to my problem yet. Good luck with your project.

Fumbling my way happily thru the world of HD…

[Terry Gipson]

I may be off here because I’ve only done a few projects so far in PProCS3, editing several events with large sequences (over 1 hour). I am not sure I like the quality of the direct-to-DVD workflow result thru PProCS3 as well as my old way of DVD production, exporting the uncompressed sequence from the NLE and then rendering to mpeg2 DVD format with TPMGEnc. I did this with Avid Liquid and was happy with the result.

I am still experimenting with the DVD production thru PProCS3, but I regularly export large sequences >20GB uncompressed without problems.

Fumbling my way happily thru the world of HD…

[Terry Gipson]

I capture my video to disk thru a Sony HVR-M15. My Dell monitor has picture-in-picture capability. So I capture thru the firewire connection and also connect the deck to the monitor via the component-out from the deck to the component-in on the monitor. That way I can watch as I record HDV in PPro CS3. If your monitor supports picture-in-picture then run a component out from the camera into the monitor; otherwise buy a cheap TV or LCD monitor.
I came from Liquid where you could watch the HDV material as it was being captured. Hopefully Adobe will catch up with that feature.

[Terry Gipson]

I use Mercalli and it works very well in PPro cs3. (about $100)

[Terry Gipson]

That’s a bummer…

[Terry Gipson]

Didn’t work….

[Terry Gipson]

I purchased the eSATA connection with JBOD setup. I use it as back up. It is easily 2X faster that USB connection. They have RAID setups but I have a RAID0 array in my computer I use for capture and editing.

[Terry Gipson]

Thanks for the help !!