Deck for the HV20 for 48 Hour film Festival

[Chris Barcellos]

Okay, I admit it, this camera should be considered a deck for itself, but this question is technical regarding the HDV 60i stream created by 24p setting on the HV20.

I'm going to be involved in a 48hour film festival, and we are considering using 2 HV20s to shoot. Time in these things is critical, so we wanted to capture with a third camera. The only other HDV camera we have is an FX1. We don't have another deck. Direct capture to a hard disk is not practical.

Will it properly transfer the HV20 24p material?

I tested it briefly, and did get a picture on play back. Captured some marterial, but had some issues I wasn't sure was related to the camera, or other things going on.

Comments anyone ?

[Austin Meyers]

what sort of issues? the 24p footage should/will transfer just like a regular 60i stream, because that's what it is. so if the fx1 will playback the 60i from the hv20 it should playback the 24p. i know fx1 footage will playback on the hv20 but i'm not sure about vice versa...

[Chris Barcellos]

Hey Austion, I didn't really have time to check it out. Just had a bit of a hang up in the captured file when I played it on WMP. Probably was a tape hickup issue, as there might have been a gap in the tape. So I didn't mean to infer that I definitely saw a problem, but I was just wondering about this aspect of 24p capture issue, and whether the HV20 does anything special in the capture process when it transfers the stream.

[Stephen van Vuuren]

I've done direct to disk capture for the last two 48 Hour film festivals with two old laptops with a 25ft firewire cable. Not every shot, but 95%. Saves valuable time.