monitor HDV timeline in output digital cinema desktop full screen

I'm sparkling new to Canon HDV. Bought a HV-20E after my trusty Canon XM-1 was stolen.(This is the PAL version of the GL-1, like the one Shane Ross wrote he returned to after he gave back the HV-20) Still mourn the camera which I had seven years, and mourn the Sennheiser 66 and the Kata camera bag).

I captured the HV-20 test material in HDV Firewire 1080i50 (PAL) as instructed on this forum.

As stated on this forum I couldn't monitor the timeline through the HV-20. But discovered that I could monitor the timeline on my second editing monitor if I set my view preferences to Digital Cinema Desktop (full screen). I assume everyone knows this, but thought I'd drop in the info just in case. (I have an old 17" Mag crt and a Samsung BW206. Picture is great on the Samsung, eventhough its only 1680 not true HD). I could also use the Samsung to watch video directly from the camera by hooking up a HDMI cable to the Samsung using a Radio Shack HDMI DVI adapter.

I managed to output HDV back to the camera, using the complicated instructions I found after hours of surfing and a long "conform", for a 3-min test.

In the future I'd want to use this HV-20 as a second or third HD camera. But I haven't yet figured out how to convert to the HDV timeline to HD. I read that I could export as ProRes, but I haven't found out how yet. Is this done through FCP? Compressor? Quicktime?I don't see ProRes but do see 4:2:2 and 10-bit. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Imac G-5 intel, FCP 5.1.4 OSX 10.4.10

If you upgrade to FCP 6.0.2 you can convert to Pro Res 422 on the fly via firewire during capture. No capture card required.

I could be wrong, but I think ProRes was a FCP 6.0 innovation.

Jude Cotter Wrote:
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> If you upgrade to FCP 6.0.2 you can convert to Pro
> Res 422 on the fly via firewire during capture. No
> capture card required.
>
> I could be wrong, but I think ProRes was a FCP 6.0
> innovation.


Pro Res was indeed introduced with FCP 6.