Jun
24
HD Camcorder: Canon HV20
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Lee West reviews the Canon HV20 for Wired. Video produced by The Media Factory … Canon camcorder HV20 electronics Wired products technology
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Im going to get the HV30 and I guess its just about the same thing just a year later.
and the one thing he said is a flaw on this cam is one of the reason’s why I wanted the cam. I want tape so I can store my footage and memories physically.
Well, i use Sony Vegas to do all the editing and rendering. Ideally for youtube (widescreen) and since the camera im using is High Definition, I use custom HD template which the setting is like this. {Audio:64Kbps, 44,100Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo. Video: 29.970fps, 720×480, Quality VBR 90, WMV V9 compression}. this should look like at the template discription.. Just PM me if u dont understand
cool! How do you (personally) get your videos on youtube? converting and if so with what? thanks for any help you can give. =)
who cares about image stabiltion use a fucking tripod sit it on the groung has it got good manual controls a shoe for mic top
and dont rewind shoot your shot right the first time come to australia to the out back with me and i will show you something
that you wont forget
Whats the name of that song at the end…
my canon A-1 videocamera HI8MM / 8MM and sony handycam HI8MM videocameras are not good on the computer harddrive disc at all..
HDD and HDV are good on the computer
Im using Canon HV30 and its amazingg!!
Ok so I’ve done a little snooping around with this camera on youtube and i must say the video quality is picture perfect! But.. I’ve never had to deal with DV tapes let alone HD!
Christmas is coming up in a few weeks and after reading the comments on this vid I’m just really unsure if I should blow some of my money on this camera not knowing how to work with tapes. I understand Sony Vegas 8.0 and I’ve done allot of editing with it, but I’m prepared to leave that behind me and learn Final cut!
dude are you kidding me this cameras awesome
but tehe image stabilizer doesnt work to well
its shaky as hell
Theres nothing wrong with tapes, I would hate a camera that was all HDD like the shit Jvc Cameras. Theres alot more freedom with tapes then HDD.
Tapes are the best. THE QUALITY IS THE BEST!
but the consumer cameras dont use “avchd” so those consumer cameras don’t have the best quality… although i dont mindthe slight loss of quality over saving space when you have hundreds of tapes laying around your desk and probally 50% have no label.(alot of harddisk cameras are also optimized for pc editing, and that was a big problem for me)
“…looks like were gonna have to wait another year” haha! Get rid of tape? Wont happen.
thats a load of bull do some research before you comment, almost all the industry standard video software support hard drive format aka “avchd” they are worth it trust me i own one…the only difference with tape is better quality because it has a more raw format.
actually its the opposite alot of industry standard software is adapting to avchd and a bunch of them: sony vegas, imovie, final cut already support it, so i dont know wut yer smoking bro. the output format for tape still encodes to either avchd or mpg 2 its just the quality thats better.
…cool this guy.
what a load of tosh… The tape is still the best format there is. It’s just some people nowadays have no patience and want things instantly and just assume tape is old fashioned.
The problem with hard drive and sd card formats is alot of the editing programs don’t have the support for them yet. DV is universal.
Another reason I heard why hard drives aren’t yet worth it is because there aren’t many codecs or anything that support it, it’s still wise to stay with DV.
I don’t think you know what you’re talking about. The images on the tape ARE compressed! Look it up. Now you can run a SD cable out of HV20 and capture (with a delay) your footage through Final Cut Pro for the best quality this camera allows.
and 24fps is not annoying, but is and was the industry standard for the last 80+ years. It’s an established format for a reason and that’s what most professional filmmakers try to capture.
HD requires HD components such as HD TV, HDVD players..unlike myself, I don’t have HD anywhere in my crib..so having a HD camera with no other HD players, defeats the purpose..
Well put!!!!
This guy doesnt know what he’s talking about, it CAN record at a 24p mode, if it always recorded in 24P that would be so annoying.
And even though u have to rewind, the image on film (DV) is better than the image on a hard drive camera because the video on DV tape is 100% uncompressed. Where as hard drive cams automiatically compress the image. So there is wasted quality right there,
And it CAN run off hd tapes, U DONT NEED THEM.
AND
dont remove this comment.
no way, I just bought a new one from a reputable ebay seller two weeks ago….only $620. ebay!