Edius & HDV

[Angelo]

I've been reading about the Canon XH-A1 HDV cam which has very good low-light performance.

I'm still using my DVStorm and produce SD DVDs, therefore I still edit in SD. The cams I have are native 4:3 DV 4:1:1 and I'm creating a lot more 16:9 SD DVDs. I would like to to capture/edit SD with ture 16:9 with 4:2:2 color space for improved upconverting performance on standard DVD palyers.

I understand that Edius capture software will convert to HDV to HQ on the fly with a fast enough system.

My question will Edius capture and convert HDV 1080i to HQ 720x480 4:2:2 on the fly?

Thanks...Angelo

[GrassValley_KH]

No, EDIUS can't do a down-conversion during capture. It's a two-step process.

[Khoi Pham]

I've been reading about the Canon XH-A1 HDV cam which has very good low-light performance.

I'm still using my DVStorm and produce SD DVDs, therefore I still edit in SD. The cams I have are native 4:3 DV 4:1:1 and I'm creating a lot more 16:9 SD DVDs. I would like to to capture/edit SD with ture 16:9 with 4:2:2 color space for improved upconverting performance on standard DVD palyers.

I understand that Edius capture software will convert to HDV to HQ on the fly with a fast enough system.

My question will Edius capture and convert HDV 1080i to HQ 720x480 4:2:2 on the fly?

Thanks...Angelo

I think you are confused and not asking the right question, but here is what you can do if your system is fast enough, Edius will convert HDV to HQ on the fly, once you have captured all, change your project to SD 16X9, a few clicks is all it takes, your other option is open a 16X9 SD project and do a incamera downconvert to DV as you captured, but the better option is the first, Edius should has better downconvert than the in camera.

[Angelo]

Will HQ 1080 files in a 16:9 SD project yield better image quality than HQ 480 files, when exporting to MPEG2? How good is Edius'' RT scaler compared to HQ 480 files?

My concern is getting the "Best" SD 16:9 MPEG2 quality.

Thanks...Angelo