You're absolutely right, Rupert... However, in Eric's situation, he bought the HV20 to be a b-roll camera for his Canon XHA1. The reason he has to shoot 24p with the HV20 is to match the footage from the XHA1.
Otherwise, he'd be able to skip 24p and shoot 60i and not have to deal with any extra conversion, time or drive space. It's one of those pre-production decisions that kind of snowballs or cascades. Once you decide to shoot your shows in a certain way, you have to get equipment that matches those particular specs or change your show so that you can utilize the features that are common to your new and old equipment. Bill Cammack http://billcammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) I've only used a PAL HV20, but even with the US version, you don't > *have* to shoot in Progressive, do you? It's just an option, isn't > it? (And one that Canon has failed to implement properly - with no > pulldown flags) So surely you can just shoot in the normal 60i mode > without all this trouble and then add a film effect at the end? > > 2) I know the PAL version of the HV20 has a 25P option instead of 24P > and I'm pretty sure that with 25P you don't have to go through this > ridiculous circus. I don't see any reason why anyone should care > whether they're shooting on PAL or NTSC for web use (or even for > broadcast - you can export any res/format you like) - so perhaps if > you *really* want to shoot in Progressive mode for whatever reason, > it's a good idea to buy a European HV20 or HV30 from somewhere like > Amazon.co.uk or Ebay. > > Correct me if I'm wrong about any of this. I don't have a deep > technical knowledge. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > > On 22-Jul-08, at 7:43 AM, Eric Rochow wrote: > > hey thanks for all the info. what a pain. i'll stick with my XHA1 > > my Canon HV20, 2 months old, is now for sale. > > thx, eric. > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
