Shoot HDV, capture HDV, edit Hdv, output SD

is that possible?

Certainly. It may take some computer work if you want to drop it back to MiniDV tapes, but you can definately compress it for DVD output without trouble.
~Luke

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Shoot in HDV, Output to DVCAM

I am a newbie to the HDV format and have been outputting programs simply using the print to video command in final cut and a DVCAM deck. I have some HDV footage that may or may not need to be mixed in with DV NTSC footage and was wondering the best way to go about editing/outputting this footage for broadcast on DVCAM.
Would the quality really suffer if i simply edited all of the footage together on a DV NTSC timeline? I figured better that than editing on a timeline better suited for the hdv footage.
Also, one last thing, as far as planning ahead what is the best way to shoot HDV if you know that you will be outputting to DVCAM, I have heard that 1080i 60 is the best wayto go but wasn't sure.
Thanks in advance,
Tyle

Just finishing a project that I did exactly this. It was shot on HDV with a Sony camera. I captured HDV and did a downconvert in the deck to DVanamorphic, recapturing exactly the same clips. You might want to capture and keep the HDV material for use in a SD sequence. On occasion, we found a shot we wanted to blow up and reposition. I simply dropped the HDV shot in the SD timeline and scaled and repositioned. This material was indistinguishable from the SD 100% material. Very handy.

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.

Why don't iMovie support native HDV capture and editing?

i would like to see iMovie HD 6 to support native HDV capture and edit. is it possible?

no, FCE-HD (what an abreviation!) uses the same trick as iM-HD, converting HiDef into AIC....
native HD is really more for the pros... yet! I think, the basic problem to be solved first is -r media, meaning, any HD/blue-ray-DVD-r disks, which make it possible for the average user to store his/her products.... but as far as I follow the discussion, right now the industry is caring more for commercial disks, and that HDMI "problem" (broadcasting can include a copyprotection, so no use of any HD/DVD HiDef recorders...!)... finally, we can record only our selfmade movies... maybe that's a little less joy...
actually, converting finished HDmovies into h264 with a high bitrate and storing that onto hd is the only realistic option........

HD - best capture and edit for NTSC Sd output?

I shoot in HD but need to output for community TV channel in Standard NTSC. What shoud my capture and sequence settings be for optimum picture quality for playback?

Two suggestions.
When I did shows on the local community tv, they had pretty rigid specs I needed to conform to. So check with whomever you are producing for, the station will give you what they need.
For my local community tv, it was 29.97 frame rate bitrate 6000-8000 720x480 mpeg2. Audio was 2 ch stereo bit rate of either 192 or 256, 44.1 or 48 khz.
So I would export in prores and use something like Compressor to change.
Hugh

Capturing and editing on my primary drive?

I have two-500GB drives in my new Macpro, and I do not see how I could ever fill up the drive with the OS and applications installed (seems kind of a waste). I have read that it is not recommended to capture and edit video on the drive that contains the os and applications, and it should be done on a secondary drive.
1. What specifically is the problem with capturing and editing video on the primary drive?
2. Will partitioning the drive with the OS and applications installed, and capturing to the separate partition make a difference?
Thank you.

1. OSX creates a great deal of disk activity. Not only is the disk trying to feed the OS and the application commands, it also hosts the System Cache where RAM overflow goes to live until needed.
Adding the demands of REAL TIME media spooling (read/write) to this really busy disk can overwhelm it - leading to dropped frames etc.
2. Partitioning does not solve it. It is still one physical disk and subject to all the same demands as spelled out in #1 above. Partitioning may make some sense in organizing material but it will do nothing for system performance. Indeed, there is some evidence it will reduce realtime performance.
If you need more drive space, for fastest performance, get a PCI based esata card and add a series of external sata devices. FW800 drives will work quite well as well - especially for DV, HDV and uncompressed SD.
good luck.
x

Problem in capturing the edited data while the table is sorted

hi,
i am using the TableSorter class provided by the sun tutorials to add sorting capability for my JTable. i need to print on the screen, the value of the cell whenever it is updated. so i am using TableModelListener and its tableChanged() method for this purpose. if i edit the data without applying the sorting then its printing fine. But if i edit the data with table sorted in a particular order by clicking on the table header then the tableChanged method is not being called. So some problem lies in the table sorter which is preventing the call to the tableChanged method whenver table it is sorted. Below is my implementation of JTable.
TableSorter sorter = new TableSorter(new MyTableModel());
final JTable table = new JTable(sorter);
table.getModel().addTableModelListener(new
TableModelListener()
     public void tableChanged(TableModelEvent e)
          int row = e.getFirstRow();
                                           int column = e.getColumn();
          System.out.println("Row: "+row+" Coloumn: "+column);
);Hope u understood the problem. plzz help
thanx

hi camickr,
However the row number displayed is always the row of
the TableModel before the data has been sorted. this is the feature i am trying for and couldnt achieve it. i do want to print the row of tablemodel before data is sorted but i am getting 0 and -1 as row and column numbers.
I never saw -1 as a column number.
if you have never seen -1 as column number then just compile and run the code given below. I just added a table model listener to the table model to capture data editing. So if u edit any cell without applying sorting then its row and column number is printed properly but if u sort a particlar column and with sorting on if u edit any cell you will get row No. as 0 and column No. as -1. try running below code and please let me know where the problem exists or post your code which worked without any of the above problems.
I believe the code was updated in Feb of this year,
so make sure you have the most recent version.yes i have the latest version of tablesorter.
below is my source code for table sorting just compile and run it
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
import java.util.*;
class TableSorterDemo extends JFrame
     public TableSorterDemo()
     setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
     TableSorter sorter=new TableSorter(new MyTableModel());
     JTable table=new JTable(sorter);
     sorter.setTableHeader(table.getTableHeader());
     table.getModel().addTableModelListener(new
TableModelListener()
     public void tableChanged(TableModelEvent e)
          int row = e.getFirstRow();
        int column = e.getColumn();
          System.out.println("Row :"+row+" Column: "+column);
     JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(table);
     scrollPane.setBackground(new Color(198,232,189));
     add(scrollPane);
     pack();
     setVisible(true);
      class MyTableModel extends AbstractTableModel {
        final String[] columnNames = {"First Name",
                                      "Last Name",
                                      "Sport",
                                      "# of Years",
                                      "Vegetarian"};
        final Object[][] data = {
            {"Mary", "Campione",
             "Snowboarding", new Integer(5), new Boolean(false)},
            {"Alison", "Huml",
             "Rowing", new Integer(3), new Boolean(true)},
            {"Kathy", "Walrath",
             "Chasing toddlers", new Integer(2), new Boolean(false)},
            {"Sharon", "Zakhour",
             "Speed reading", new Integer(20), new Boolean(true)},
            {"Angela", "Lih",
             "Teaching high school", new Integer(4), new Boolean(false)}
        public int getColumnCount() {
            return columnNames.length;
        public int getRowCount() {
            return data.length;
        public String getColumnName(int col) {
            return columnNames[col];
        public Object getValueAt(int row, int col) {
            return data[row][col];
         * JTable uses this method to determine the default renderer/
         * editor for each cell. If we didn't implement this method,
         * then the last column would contain text ("true"/"false"),
         * rather than a check box.
        public Class getColumnClass(int c) {
            return getValueAt(0, c).getClass();
         * Don't need to implement this method unless your table's
         * editable.
        public boolean isCellEditable(int row, int col) {
            //Note that the data/cell address is constant,
            //no matter where the cell appears onscreen.
            if (col < 2) {
                return false;
            } else {
                return true;
         * Don't need to implement this method unless your table's
         * data can change.
        public void setValueAt(Object value, int row, int col) {
                data[row][col] = value;
                fireTableCellUpdated(row, col);
               //     System.out.println("row "+row+"Col "+col+"Val "+value);
     public static void main(String[] args)
     new TableSorterDemo();
   /*Table Sorter Class*/
class TableSorter extends AbstractTableModel {
    protected TableModel tableModel;
    public static final int DESCENDING = -1;
    public static final int NOT_SORTED = 0;
    public static final int ASCENDING = 1;
    private static Directive EMPTY_DIRECTIVE = new Directive(-1, NOT_SORTED);
    public static final Comparator COMPARABLE_COMAPRATOR = new Comparator() {
        public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
            return ((Comparable) o1).compareTo(o2);
    public static final Comparator LEXICAL_COMPARATOR = new Comparator() {
        public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
            return o1.toString().compareTo(o2.toString());
    private Row[] viewToModel;
    private int[] modelToView;
    private JTableHeader tableHeader;
    private MouseListener mouseListener;
    private TableModelListener tableModelListener;
    private Map columnComparators = new HashMap();
    private java.util.List sortingColumns = new ArrayList();
    public TableSorter() {
        this.mouseListener = new MouseHandler();
        this.tableModelListener = new TableModelHandler();
    public TableSorter(TableModel tableModel) {
        this();
        setTableModel(tableModel);
    public TableSorter(TableModel tableModel, JTableHeader tableHeader) {
        this();
        setTableHeader(tableHeader);
        setTableModel(tableModel);
    private void clearSortingState() {
        viewToModel = null;
        modelToView = null;
    public TableModel getTableModel() {
        return tableModel;
    public void setTableModel(TableModel tableModel) {
        if (this.tableModel != null) {
            this.tableModel.removeTableModelListener(tableModelListener);
        this.tableModel = tableModel;
        if (this.tableModel != null) {
            this.tableModel.addTableModelListener(tableModelListener);
        clearSortingState();
        fireTableStructureChanged();
    public JTableHeader getTableHeader() {
        return tableHeader;
    public void setTableHeader(JTableHeader tableHeader) {
        if (this.tableHeader != null) {
            this.tableHeader.removeMouseListener(mouseListener);
            TableCellRenderer defaultRenderer = this.tableHeader.getDefaultRenderer();
            if (defaultRenderer instanceof SortableHeaderRenderer) {
                this.tableHeader.setDefaultRenderer(((SortableHeaderRenderer) defaultRenderer).tableCellRenderer);
        this.tableHeader = tableHeader;
        if (this.tableHeader != null) {
            this.tableHeader.addMouseListener(mouseListener);
            this.tableHeader.setDefaultRenderer(
                    new SortableHeaderRenderer(this.tableHeader.getDefaultRenderer()));
    public boolean isSorting() {
        return sortingColumns.size() != 0;
    private Directive getDirective(int column) {
        for (int i = 0; i < sortingColumns.size(); i++) {
            Directive directive = (Directive)sortingColumns.get(i);
            if (directive.column == column) {
                return directive;
        return EMPTY_DIRECTIVE;
    public int getSortingStatus(int column) {
        return getDirective(column).direction;
    private void sortingStatusChanged() {
        clearSortingState();
        fireTableDataChanged();
        if (tableHeader != null) {
            tableHeader.repaint();
    public void setSortingStatus(int column, int status) {
        Directive directive = getDirective(column);
        if (directive != EMPTY_DIRECTIVE) {
            sortingColumns.remove(directive);
        if (status != NOT_SORTED) {
            sortingColumns.add(new Directive(column, status));
        sortingStatusChanged();
    protected Icon getHeaderRendererIcon(int column, int size) {
        Directive directive = getDirective(column);
        if (directive == EMPTY_DIRECTIVE) {
            return null;
        return new Arrow(directive.direction == DESCENDING, size, sortingColumns.indexOf(directive));
    private void cancelSorting() {
        sortingColumns.clear();
        sortingStatusChanged();
    public void setColumnComparator(Class type, Comparator comparator) {
        if (comparator == null) {
            columnComparators.remove(type);
        } else {
            columnComparators.put(type, comparator);
    protected Comparator getComparator(int column) {
        Class columnType = tableModel.getColumnClass(column);
        Comparator comparator = (Comparator) columnComparators.get(columnType);
        if (comparator != null) {
            return comparator;
        if (Comparable.class.isAssignableFrom(columnType)) {
            return COMPARABLE_COMAPRATOR;
        return LEXICAL_COMPARATOR;
    private Row[] getViewToModel() {
        if (viewToModel == null) {
            int tableModelRowCount = tableModel.getRowCount();
            viewToModel = new Row[tableModelRowCount];
            for (int row = 0; row < tableModelRowCount; row++) {
                viewToModel[row] = new Row(row);
            if (isSorting()) {
                Arrays.sort(viewToModel);
        return viewToModel;
    public int modelIndex(int viewIndex) {
        return getViewToModel()[viewIndex].modelIndex;
    private int[] getModelToView() {
        if (modelToView == null) {
            int n = getViewToModel().length;
            modelToView = new int[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                modelToView[modelIndex(i)] = i;
        return modelToView;
    // TableModel interface methods
    public int getRowCount() {
        return (tableModel == null) ? 0 : tableModel.getRowCount();
    public int getColumnCount() {
        return (tableModel == null) ? 0 : tableModel.getColumnCount();
    public String getColumnName(int column) {
        return tableModel.getColumnName(column);
    public Class getColumnClass(int column) {
        return tableModel.getColumnClass(column);
    public boolean isCellEditable(int row, int column) {
        return tableModel.isCellEditable(modelIndex(row), column);
    public Object getValueAt(int row, int column) {
        return tableModel.getValueAt(modelIndex(row), column);
    public void setValueAt(Object aValue, int row, int column) {
        tableModel.setValueAt(aValue, modelIndex(row), column);
    // Helper classes
    private class Row implements Comparable {
        private int modelIndex;
        public Row(int index) {
            this.modelIndex = index;
        public int compareTo(Object o) {
            int row1 = modelIndex;
            int row2 = ((Row) o).modelIndex;
            for (Iterator it = sortingColumns.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
                Directive directive = (Directive) it.next();
                int column = directive.column;
                Object o1 = tableModel.getValueAt(row1, column);
                Object o2 = tableModel.getValueAt(row2, column);
                int comparison = 0;
                // Define null less than everything, except null.
                if (o1 == null && o2 == null) {
                    comparison = 0;
                } else if (o1 == null) {
                    comparison = -1;
                } else if (o2 == null) {
                    comparison = 1;
                } else {
                    comparison = getComparator(column).compare(o1, o2);
                if (comparison != 0) {
                    return directive.direction == DESCENDING ? -comparison : comparison;
            return 0;
    private class TableModelHandler implements TableModelListener {
        public void tableChanged(TableModelEvent e) {
            // If we're not sorting by anything, just pass the event along.
            if (!isSorting()) {
                clearSortingState();
                fireTableChanged(e);
                return;
            if (e.getFirstRow() == TableModelEvent.HEADER_ROW) {
                cancelSorting();
                fireTableChanged(e);
                return;
            int column = e.getColumn();
            if (e.getFirstRow() == e.getLastRow()
                    && column != TableModelEvent.ALL_COLUMNS
                    && getSortingStatus(column) == NOT_SORTED
                    && modelToView != null) {
                int viewIndex = getModelToView()[e.getFirstRow()];
                fireTableChanged(new TableModelEvent(TableSorter.this,
                                                     viewIndex, viewIndex,
                                                     column, e.getType()));
                return;
            // Something has happened to the data that may have invalidated the row order.
            clearSortingState();
            fireTableDataChanged();
            return;
    private class MouseHandler extends MouseAdapter {
        public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
            JTableHeader h = (JTableHeader) e.getSource();
            TableColumnModel columnModel = h.getColumnModel();
            int viewColumn = columnModel.getColumnIndexAtX(e.getX());
            int column = columnModel.getColumn(viewColumn).getModelIndex();
            if (column != -1) {
                int status = getSortingStatus(column);
                if (!e.isControlDown()) {
                    cancelSorting();
                // Cycle the sorting states through {NOT_SORTED, ASCENDING, DESCENDING} or
                // {NOT_SORTED, DESCENDING, ASCENDING} depending on whether shift is pressed.
                status = status + (e.isShiftDown() ? -1 : 1);
                status = (status + 4) % 3 - 1; // signed mod, returning {-1, 0, 1}
                setSortingStatus(column, status);
    private static class Arrow implements Icon {
        private boolean descending;
        private int size;
        private int priority;
        public Arrow(boolean descending, int size, int priority) {
            this.descending = descending;
            this.size = size;
            this.priority = priority;
        public void paintIcon(Component c, Graphics g, int x, int y) {
            Color color = c == null ? Color.GRAY : c.getBackground();
            // In a compound sort, make each succesive triangle 20%
            // smaller than the previous one.
            int dx = (int)(size/2*Math.pow(0.8, priority));
            int dy = descending ? dx : -dx;
            // Align icon (roughly) with font baseline.
            y = y + 5*size/6 + (descending ? -dy : 0);
            int shift = descending ? 1 : -1;
            g.translate(x, y);
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            g.setColor(color.darker());
            g.drawLine(dx / 2, dy, 0, 0);
            g.drawLine(dx / 2, dy + shift, 0, shift);
            // Left diagonal.
            g.setColor(color.brighter());
            g.drawLine(dx / 2, dy, dx, 0);
            g.drawLine(dx / 2, dy + shift, dx, shift);
            // Horizontal line.
            if (descending) {
                g.setColor(color.darker().darker());
            } else {
                g.setColor(color.brighter().brighter());
            g.drawLine(dx, 0, 0, 0);
            g.setColor(color);
            g.translate(-x, -y);
        public int getIconWidth() {
            return size;
        public int getIconHeight() {
            return size;
    private class SortableHeaderRenderer implements TableCellRenderer {
        private TableCellRenderer tableCellRenderer;
        public SortableHeaderRenderer(TableCellRenderer tableCellRenderer) {
            this.tableCellRenderer = tableCellRenderer;
        public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table,
                                                       Object value,
                                                       boolean isSelected,
                                                       boolean hasFocus,
                                                       int row,
                                                       int column) {
            Component c = tableCellRenderer.getTableCellRendererComponent(table,
                    value, isSelected, hasFocus, row, column);
            if (c instanceof JLabel) {
                JLabel l = (JLabel) c;
                l.setHorizontalTextPosition(JLabel.LEFT);
                int modelColumn = table.convertColumnIndexToModel(column);
                l.setIcon(getHeaderRendererIcon(modelColumn, l.getFont().getSize()));
            return c;
    private static class Directive {
        private int column;
        private int direction;
        public Directive(int column, int direction) {
            this.column = column;
            this.direction = direction;
}

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these are both possible solutions that i didn't think of.
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using cinema tools, i have performed reverse telecine which seems to remove the pulldown for clips that have the right timing, and unfortunately, not for those that are off.
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My train of thought here is that I can just use a standard DV PAL setup as the DVX100b stored 25p in a 50i stream. So my questions are:
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3) When rendering, say to DVD can I just render using Compresser to DVD PAL as normal and all is good?
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You are going to get this sort of thing a lot. When you try to print to tape at the end it can happen again.
If you are getting problems you should reset your easy settings and copy and paste the edited material (not the sequence or you wil just nest the old sequence inside it) into a newly created easy set up sequence.

Best quality for output Shooting HDV and DV What is better

I am shooting commercials for local cable. I have a sony fx1 HDV. it shoots 16x9.
The cable Co only accepts dvc pro tapes or mini DV tapes.
I have been shooting in DV mode and importing as firewire basic. (is that correct?)
when I output to tape it plays on any 4x3 tv like everyone is tall.... If I go in and adjust distortion to -33.3 it looks fine. Looks widescreen on 4x3 and widescreen on a widescreen flat panel.
Isn't there a preset so I do not have to adjust all of this?
Also would I have better quality if I shot in HDV and imported that way then just drug the edited product to a firewire basic dv sequence for output?
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Also would I have better quality if I shot in HDV and imported that way then just drug the edited >product to a firewire basic dv sequence for output?
If you have the option to shoot in HDV, do it every time unless there is an overriding need.
Firewire Basic is wrong for 16:9 stuff. Use a DV Anamorphic Easy Setup. Which one depends on the video standard or the camera and the cameras audio setting.
Can you provide these?
You may want to read this thread, emphasis on field order:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1974650&tstart=0
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