Shoot HDV and Capture as DV ?

I have been looking at the Canon HV20 which is able to shoot both HDV and DV.
I assume that one could shoot HDV and capture it as DV in FCE and FCP. If this is the case, what Easy Setup would be used in both apps ?
Also, as HDV deals with frames differently, resulting in poorer movement rendition than DV, would this mean that the captured DV's motion would not look as good as usual ?
If that was true, it might be better shooting in DV initially ?
Any comments or thoughts would be welcome.

I have just remembered that 4 members of my video club recently shot a theatrical production.
They used 4 "manned" cameras shooting SD and had a "locked" unmanned HDV camera shooting the whole of the stage.
The theory behind it was that the locked camera footage could be used on occasions when the manned cameras did not capture ideal shots of the actors etc.
The fact that it was HD meant that they could zoom into the appropriate section of the stage, during editing, and still end up with quality roughly equal to SD.
Trying that with an SD camera would have resulted in a noticeable degradation of the image.
From what I could tell from the DVD they projected, it seemed to work OK.

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