I suppose you removed pulldown right?

yes :) i've joined the group :) very happy with it so far. great camera. i'll probably do some comparisons next week between the hc3 and the hv20 in terms of the same footage.

yeah this video above is actually not real 24p. i just noticed it. i need to look into converting 60i into 24p when shooting in 24p mode on the hv20. i heard you need cineform/neo hdv to do so which i don't want to spend the money on. hd aspect for premiere is way too expensive.

do you shoot 24p? and how do you acoomplish converting the 60i capture into 24p? i don't think there's a way to do this directly in adobe premiere pro cs3 right?

thanks,

I usually shoot 60i, no reason for 24p for normal videos. Look at the free way of removing pulldown here: eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/07/13/canon-hv20-24p-pulldown/

IM me directly if you have trouble following the tutorial.

WOW! thanks. that's a lot of work to get at real 24p in the end the free way. but great tutorial. i'll start with just 60i for now then :)

The second Windows method is not that difficult to setup. The first method is more advanced to setup, but from the moment you do it, it becomes a breeze from then on.

yeah i just saw the second method. i'll definitely try that! thanks!

Great! We're gonna 'turn' everyone. There's no getting away. Hope you've enjoyed the HV20 so far, and I can't wait to see the HC3 comparisons. When buying my HV20, the only other thing I looked at was the HC7, but the HV20's 25p and 'Non-Touch-Screen' and the lower price settled the deal for me. I've not regretted it one bit.

I shoot in 25p (not 24p since mine is PAL), now this is stored on tape as 50i, all I do is de-interlace while exporting to 25p and I think that's all I need to do, and it appears to be running at actual 25 frames per second, or am I wrong and do I need some sort of pull-down method to achieve this?
p.s. I do realise that 'Film' runs at 24fps, but I really can't tell the difference between 24p & 25p.

You don't need pulldown removal for 25p, it's real 25p.

Alright, thanks.

hmn... I've just been playing around with my HV20 to try and see if there is any humming sound. What I've found out is that when I hold the camera with my hand in the strap griping onto the side of the tape-chamber, I do hear a constant humming sound. The best way of avoiding this is to hold the camera another way, (tripod/FigRig/SteadiCam etc.) and also to bring the audio-levels down using the joystick control. And on that note, I noticed from your video that you had an auto-exposure setting. When you set everything to manual on the HV20, the exposure setting stays automatic, you have to use the joystick and scroll to the exposure setting, and then push the joystick up once, this will enable full manual control and you need to do this everytime you turn your camera on. Hope that helps. Happy shooting.

cool, i'll play. thanks,

yup :) amazing he lets him play with him. in the beginning he was fussy about it, but i think he just gave up one day and said "screw it".

Thansk Pietro