Question about canon HV30

(FCS 2)
I have been shooting DV for a few years, and have had no real issues.
At work, we just bought a Canon HV30. I have never shot in HD. (As I am sure you know) it shoots in 3 modes:
HDV (1080i)
HDV 30 (progressive)
HDV 24 (progressive 24 fps)
Most of our work right now will be for web. Down the road I see us burning HD DVD.
What format should I be using???
Also, I have shot some talking head footage using HDV 1080i.
When do I need to de-interlace? At what stage do I de-interlace? That part has been confusing me.
Should I just stick with shooting progressive?
I really appreciate any advice.

Okay Here's a guide. This will give you some awesome looking footage to work with:
1. Setup your Audio/Video Settings.
2. Sequence Preset: HDV- 1080i60
3. Capture Preset: HDV
4. Device Control: HDV Firewire Basic
5. Video playback: Off
6. Audio playback: Built-in Audio
7. Plug in your HV-30 via firewire
8. Click on Log and Capture
9. The HV30 will auto create scenes when you start / stopped the tape. (Very Useful)
10. After your footage has been captured, open JES Deinterlacer.
You can get it here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeschot/home.html
Make sure you get the right version for your OS.
Now all footage is captured at 29.97 JES Deinterlacer will go in get rid of the duplicate frames and get it at a nice 23.976.
Now in JES do the following:
1. Go to "input" and select the footage you'd like to convert.
2. Put checks in the boxes for: "Top field first" and "video range"
3. In the "Project" tab select "Inverse Telecine" from the drop down menu. Then
check "Detect Cadence Breaks" and "Output frame rate 23.976"
4. In the "Output" tab, check "Progressive" and do a "Direct" output with "Photo-JPEG" as the compressor.
You are going to be changing the footage from HDV MOV to Photo JPEG MOV. There is absolutely no loss of quality in fact it will look so much better than what you captured and will be 24P.
The frame rate on the clips should now be 23.976 with about 20mbs data rate. The original capture files are no longer needed and can be deleted, but first! check your new converted files in FCP. Then delete the original capture files.
Now it's time to bring it all back to FCP
1. Create a new sequence.
2. Change the sequence settings to:
Frame Size: 1440x1080 HD 16x9
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD 1440x1080
Field Dominance: None
Compressor: Photo-JPEG Quality 100%
Audio: 48kHz 16bit, default config
Check it out in the timeline. I think you will be impressed in the power of that little HV30.
Basically what you just did was when the HV30 records it puts a 60i wrapper around your 24P footage. This method will take off the wrapper and you get awesome looking 24P footage!
- Hope this helps!

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Hi Ron,
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Yeah, I've been using FCE for a couple of months with my Elura 65 SD camcorder. I just got my HV30 last week, so I'm trying to wrap my brain around all the HD options.
I just bought the HV30 a few weeks ago. I set my Easy Setup to 1080i60 and it captures fine (remember, though, your capture screen will be different than regular DV capture. It will have no controls, just the screen and you press esc when you're done.)
I've noted that FCE often doesn't recognize ESC when I hit it. When that happens, I manually stop the camcorder, and the FCE thinks it's reached the end-of-tape, which has the same effect.
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