Unable to encode Video with VS11 and Canon HV20

[jmone]

No Probs - Also due to the Anamorphic Nature of 1080 HDV you will find that the 1440x1080 (with its 16:9 Pixel Aspect Ratio) should fill out your 1920x1080 projector nicely

[etech6355]

I was interested in that card until I read all the specs & requirements
The new PCI-e interface cards that can capture from the hdmi or component connections are nice, your also going into the professional end of video using this card. I think one should be aware you need additional equipment besides the hdmi capture card. Probably an investment of 5K for a dedicated computer system (windows). A Mac system would be more expensive. So a fast computer and very large disk arrays to capture uncompressed HighDefinition Video.

Here is a quote from the specs:

Traditionally uncompressed HD video has required the use of very fast, external disk arrays. However the high quality Online JPEG codec included with the Intensity drivers means that you can capture high definition video to a single, internal SATA disk. If you want to work with uncompressed video, you'll need at least two SATA disks in a RAID 0 configuration for standard definition. For uncompressed high defintion we'd recommend at least four SATA II disks (with 16 MB cache and running at 7200rpm) in a RAID 0 configuation.

This is professional editing. In my opinion if recording from the tape which is in HDV format mpeg2 from a consumer based cam there's not much gain.
But capturing in real-time (before the tape) would yield the best. results. Not very practical for consumer based HD editing.

[Ballistix]

Yeah, overkill for me. My PC can do it, it's pretty beefy but clearly the camera has to be connected to it in real-time. Nuts.

Oh well, wait another couple of years for the next gen camcorders. Anyone know if any of the hard disk based camcorders can record to hard disk at 25Mbps and at true 1920x1080?

T

[jmone]

Not yet, they are looking at beefing up the data rate for AVC based camcorders but at this stage the results over at http://www.camcorderinfo.com indicate that HDV still has the edge...

[Ballistix]

That's what my research told me too...hence why I bought the Canon. Oh well it's still a wicked little camera for the price. Everything in this world is a compromise.

T

[etech6355]

JVC came out with a HD cam that records to a 60gig harddisk in mpeg2 format.
Write-ups on the JVC cam is it's well built but the picture isn't as good as the Sony or Canon's HDV cam's.

[jmone]

But capturing in real-time (before the tape) would yield the best. results. Not very practical for consumer based HD editing.

Yeah but how cool would you look at the beach with this rig attached to your HV20....

http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=97526