Which Project Preset for HV40 with "Native" 24p?

[George Tyndall]

When using PRE7?

[Chuck Engels]

Only available in Premiere Pro George.

[RJ Johnston]

Here is a link to some Canon Progressive Scan HDV editing presets that you should be able to install in Premiere Elements 7. One of the presets is for 24. There's a PDF on "How to Install" that applies to PPro 2, but you should be able to figure out the corresponding folders in PRE7.

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/ ... ftpID=3408

[Paul LS]

Yes, I have them installed without issue.

[Chuck Engels]

Thanks RJ, forgot about that.

Will these presets work with the HV40's 24p format?

[RJ Johnston]

Thanks RJ, forgot about that.

Will these presets work with the HV40's 24p format?

There's no way for me to know for sure.

[rolawren]

Hi,

I am thinking of buying a Canon HV40 as I have an old PC and not a huge amount of hard disk, but I do have an external 500GB external drive that is only half full.

I have PE 4.0. Will it work it for firewire downloads from a Canon HV40. Just reading how you have to install extra plugins for native 24p in this forum post. I this likely to work in PE4, or do I have no hope. I would prefer not to buy Premiere Pro, but could upgrade to PE 7 or 8.

I don't need the high definition, but like the idea of 16:9 good quality wide-screen. What would be the presets to use? Do I basically follow the same advice here?

Regards,

Robyn

[Paul LS]

Yes, you will be able to capture high definition over Firewire. Alternatively if you are more interested in standard definition you can video in high definition and then downconvert in the camcorder and capture as widescreen DV-AVI.

The plugins should work in PE4... but you do not have to work with progressive... you can work stictly with interlaced as with standard definition. PE4 will work just fine. What PC spec do you have? If you want to work in high definition it will be more processor intensive than standard definition. That said, HDV MPEG2 requires far fewer computer resources than high definition AVCHD.

[rolawren]

My PC specs is an older DELL, Pentium 4 with 3GHZ, 3MB RAM running Windows XP SP2.

DELL Dimension DIM4700
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.2GHZ 3GB RAM
Windows XP (version 2002) Service Pack 2

I checked the USB drive and it has USB and USB2 drivers installed.

So do you think this sort of PC would be fine. It was fine for my SD 4:3 Panasonic handy-cam with firewire.

Regards,
Robyn

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Robyn,
You can edit the SD footage from the HV40 without any problems at all.
You can also edit the HDV footage but it will be painful. That is one of the main reasons I got a new computer. I tried editing HDV with my Dell Dimension similar to yours and almost threw it in the trash. Very frustrating waiting for things to move. The preview was almost non existent.

[rolawren]

OK, maybe I will stick with SD editing for the meanwhile. I am keen to get a better video soonish, I keep seeing all sorts of things I would like to video, but don't want to keep using the 4:3, as then I will have a mixture of ratio sizes.

Eventually will need to upgrade the PC and maybe the problems with HDV might be the reason to do so. However video camera first, then will see how it goes.

Regards,

Robyn

[Chuck Engels]

You can capture HDV footage in SD format, or shoot in SD I believe, with the HV40.
If you always shoot in HDV you can go back and use the HDV footage later and just capture in SD for now.
It will only be widescreen just as HDV is.
I don't even think there is an option for 4:3