"HDV: What You NEED to Know"

This guide written by Douglas Spotted Eagle and Mark Dileo, will give you all the information you need to hit the ground running with an HDV camera and your editing system.

 

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HDV

 

 

The Sony HVR-Z1U

This is a fully loaded HVR-Z1U. Chrosziel Focus pull, Miller support, Chrosziel mattebox, wireless, remote zoom/focus. Sweet, light, and great looking.

These images were shot by videographers in Bali using a HVR-Z1U. They may not be copied, distributed, nor linked to. If you wish to link to this page, that is fine, but you may not copy these images for placement on your own pages. You may not link directly to the images.

These images are taken directly from the Vegas timeline. All have been converted to 2 GOP avi using the Cineform Connect HD product. They are not the raw m2t files.* AVI's are loaded to the Vegas timeline, I placed a marker on the timeline to indicate the frame I wished to draw from, and then the preview window was set to Best/Full. Files were named at capture, and uploaded directly to this site. No filtering was done on these files. They are interlaced, as that is the native format of 1080i.

Original m2t
1440 x 1080 anamorphic stretched to 1920 x 1080.
 
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Original HDV shot
(1920 x 1080i)
Note the reds in the water in addition to the smooth greens. It's easy to pull to green in compressed formats, but Sony has somehow avoided this.
This is a 1440 anamorphic shot, (1.333 PAR) converted to 1.0 PAR.
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Converted to Huffyuv (free codec)
Huffyuv is a free codec that is lossless. It's also quite slow to edit with, but may act as a 'freebie' intermediary if you don't want to use the Cineform or Lumiere tools. It is quite slow due to the file size.
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Downsampled to NTSC DV Wide
We suspect this will be what most folks will be doing for a while in either wide or 4:3 SAR, until the total availability of Blu-Ray™ takes place for delivery.
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Downsampled to 4:3 NTSC DV
We suspect this will be what most folks will be doing for a whilein either wide or 4:3 SAR, until the total availability of Blu-Ray™ takes place for delivery.
Archive the media in HDV, then redeliver in HDV at a later point.
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HDV zoomed at 50%
Using Pan/Crop inside of Vegas, I zoomed in by 50% on this shot. The small preview has some artifacts around the nose, so look at the full size image for best preview. On the full size preview, note the hair on the flower, the hair on the neck, while remembering that this is zoomed by 50%.
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Downsampled to 720P
Here I've taken the image and converted it to 720p, using Vegas' Project Properties. Again, it's a raw image taken straight from the Vegas timeline snapshot tool.
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.:These images are ©Sony 2004. Used with permission.

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*First image is from m2t file for comparison of Cineform conversion.
**SAR=Screen Aspect Ratio
   PAR=Pixel Aspect Ratio

 

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