If you have a HD Mini DV camera does it film HD onto the MiniDV or do they film onto something else??
Hey
HDV is a format that uses the whole width of the DV tape to record some non native HD formats (depends on the camera), that means that you'll still need HD monitor, equipment etc.
The con is that it records straight as an mpeg-2, which means only one out of 4-5 frames is a real frame, the others are delta frames, also known as BULLSHIT.
Don't ask me how to edit that stuff, I have no idea
Any old dv tapes will do, but only ever use the same type else you'll bugger up the camera heads.
Now, the question is: why do you want to use HDV?
Compare HDV to HD on things like data rate, colour space, color subsamp. and you'll start wondering...
WHY BOTHER?
If you have a HD Mini DV camera does it film HD onto the MiniDV or do they film onto something else??
And if your final output is intended to be standard definition, shooting in HDV gives you a MUCH better looking image than footage that originates as SDIt definitely looks better than most of the SD videos uprezzed for HD.