The Hd Thread...

Can someone here who is a HD expert make a thread that details everything one needs to know about the format? In other words, how to record, edit and watch it to its fullest potential?

It should be pinned too, considering it's the future of homemade films and all (and thus, the future of homegrown)..and it's damn confusing to us ignorant folk. Would probably prevent a lot of unnecessary threads being made too.

HDV format is basiclly MPEG2 format, recored to a mini-dv tape. The HDV format is becoming more popular due to the prices of consumer HDV camcorders being below that of prosumer 3-CCD cameras, when at the same time offering matched or better picture quality. Consumer HDV cameras are ussally smaller and lighter then that of 3-CCD camcorders aswell. HDV footage records on to 1 CMOS chip insteed of 3-CCD's. For most editing programs HDV footage can be captured just as easy as SD (standerd definition) footage and editing just as easy to (but there have been some reported problems taking screen caps, due to the high quality the footage will load slower and thus making a fuzzy picture). Footage shot in HD can be captuerd through and HDMI cable, I-link cable, and for some standerd firewire. HDMI is soppost to lead to better quality but I capture through firewire and it does not drop quality at all, for me. When editing HDV footage you can also down sample your footage so it is in an SD format for youtube and other video upload sites (that do not exept videos in the HDV format). But some people will edit there progect and export back on to a tape (on cameras that will allow it) and use youtube "quick captur" function to get it on youtube in higher quality. HDV cameras are also more easy to get your hands on as they are sold at almost every electronics store, insteed of haveing to go to a camera shop or order online. The only downfall is the cost of the tapes are far more expansivve then regualr mini-dv tapes (but you can recored to regular mini-dv, I am not sure what diffrance it makes). Also in most cases 3-ccd cameras wil have more "pro like" featuers, as in mic jacks and such.

I know its not much about the HDV format itself but for the most part it just like mini-dv but better quality, because most computers and TV's now a days are adapting to sopporting the HD format.

High-definition television (HDTV) is a digital television broadcasting system with greater resolution than traditional television systems (NTSC, SECAM, PAL). HDTV is digitally broadcast, because digital television (DTV) requires less bandwidth if sufficient video compression is used. HDTV technology was introduced in the U.S. in the 1990s by the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance, a group of television companies.[1][2]

HDTV broadcast systems are defined three-fold, by:

* The number of lines in the vertical display resolution.

* The scanning system: progressive scanning (p) or interlaced scanning (I). Progressive scanning redraws an image frame (all of its lines) per each image refreshing. Interlaced scanning redraws the image field (every second line) per each image refreshing, and then redraws the remaining lines with a second refreshing. Interlaced scanning yields greater image resolution using a narrower bandwidth, but suffers flicker and artifacts.

* The number of frames per second or fields per second.

The 720p60 format is 1280 × 720 pixels, progressive encoding with 60 fields per second (60 Hz). The 1080i50 format is 1920 × 1080 pixels, interlaced encoding with 50 fields (25 frames) per second. For commercial naming of the product, either the frame rate or the field rate is dropped, e.g. a "1080i television set" label indicates only the image resolution.[5] Often, the rate is inferred from the context, usually assumed to be either 50 or 60, except for 1080p, which is denotes 1080p24, 1080p25, and 1080p30, but also 1080p50 and 1080p60 in the future.

A frame or field rate can also be specified without a resolution. For example 24p means 24 progressive scan frames per second and 50i means 25 interlaced frames per second, consisting of 50 interlaced fields per second. Most HDTV systems support some standard resolutions and frame or field rates. The most common are noted below.

HDTV has at least twice the linear resolution of standard-definition television (SDTV), thus allowing much more detail to be shown compared with analog television or regular DVD. In addition, the technical standards for broadcasting HDTV are also able to handle 16:9 aspect ratio pictures without using letterboxing or anamorphic stretching, thus further increasing the effective resolution for such content.