this is the PAL XH A1.
in Vegas clip properties it shows this per clip.
what is that 32 at the end?
i googled it and no luck.

thanks

That's the bit count for the color sampling. 32bits in total.

thanks jack, but isn't it really 8bits?

that means you are using an alpha channel (4x8 RGB+a).
Since you cannot divide 32 by 3 , it is likely the case, but you could have 30bit RGB with 10 bit for each color.

Moved from Canon XL to Vegas.

It means you are using an alpha channel, 8 bits per channelx4=32.
When there is no alpha channel, it reads 24.

regarding the alpha channel, is this something inherent in the HDV stream? because i have not used anything. this is just clicking on the clips in explorer and reading their properties underneath. no processing.
thanks again