How to handle HDV in pr8 and cs4

[thhult]

Hi,
I have just bought a HDV-videocam, Canon HV40. I have several problems in the capture step. As I have reached there is no possibillity to set timecode for split the loaded video and even of content. I have read about "HDV split". Works it in both PRE and Prem pro ?
Have anyone any experience ?

Regards
Thomas

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Thomas,
Many of us use HDVSplit, especially those of us with HV20, 30 and 40 camcorders.

HDVSplit is a separate program and all it does is capture HDV and splits by timecode.
Then you import the files into any video editing program.

Works great, I use to capture all of my HDV footage.

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[thhult]

Hi,
It seems to work. The file format is m2t instead avi. Is there any differences ?
Steve, I´m still waiting for your book. Do you take up some of HDV and HDMI ?

Thomas

[Chuck Engels]

HDV is either MPEG or M2T(which is just high definition mpeg anyway), that is correct, SD Video is AVI as far as the capture format goes anyway.

[Steve Grisetti]

Hi, Thomas. Sorry the book is taking so long to get to you!

Meantime, FYI there's not a lot in the book on HDV specifically. It discusses it just as another tape-based editing format.