11 Responses to “Canon HV20 Review”  

1. 1 Bruce Allen Feb 9th, 2007 at 7:34 pm

   It’s a 3 lux camera because it has improved digital noise reduction, not a major sensor improvment. That’s not going to stop me wanting one, though!

2. 2 Anthony Torres Apr 11th, 2007 at 8:07 pm

   I received my HV20 for $950 from Custom Supply, INc 205.252.0141 tonight, Apr 11 07.
   Having played with the DV Canon GL and XLs, I’m totally thrilled with this camera. You MUST read the manual, as it is not out of the box intuitive. Complaints have been that you can’t lock exposure, but you can. You set shutter (TV) to 60, and then you can press the func button while shooting to lock the exposure as 1 or -1, what have you.
   I’m still figuring out the final cut pro workflow. My only capture preset is HDV, which is kind of lame given I shot 24P. It captures as 60i. Ugh. Just when I figured out DV, I gotta hunt for answers for HDV.

   All said, give Custom Supply a call. They are legit, and they filled my order fast. Best, Anthony - Barrio Boys dot com

3. 3 Jared Apr 15th, 2007 at 9:33 am

   To extract the 24p in FCP from HDV, the easiest (but time consuming) way to do it is to use the Apple intermediate codec, and then use Cinema Tools to extract the 24p from the 60i. There’s no one-stop way to do it (yet).

4. 4 Matthew Jeppsen Apr 15th, 2007 at 9:40 am

   I understand that it can also be accomplished in Adobe After Effects. Drop your HV20 24p clip into AE, select Interpret footage > 3:2 Pulldown, then select the appropriate pixel aspect ratio and hit OK.

   -MJ

5. 5 Mastroiani Apr 21st, 2007 at 9:49 am

   pulldown removal to get 24P in Canon hV20 is a pain the butt as of yet. Hopefully Canon will address that in its firmware update (if there is one). Lots of people are not happy.

6. 6 Anil Royal Apr 24th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

   I too am having trouble with pulldown removal. I have a PC running Windows XP. I captured my HV20 footage (recorded in Cine Mode HDV24FP) using Premiere Elements 3.0. It captured saved a file with a .mpeg extension. I then imported that clip into the project (in Premiere). When I right clicked on that imported clip, there’s a menu item that says ‘Interpret Frames’. When I chose this menu, there are a bunch of settings I can customize. One of them is ‘Pulldown Removal’. BUT, I can not select this as it’s grayed out.

   So I thought of using the same ‘Interpret Frames’ option in After Effects. I opened After Effects and tried to import the .mpeg clip that Premiere Elements just created. It threw the following error and rejected to load my file:

   After Effects Error: an unspecified AVI or DirectShow error occurred. (1)
   (53 :: 33)

   I don’t know what to do now. Premiere gives a grayed out ‘Pulldown Removal’ option and AfterEffects doesn’t import a file created by Premiere. Can anybody help?

   Thank you.

7. 7 Isaac V Apr 26th, 2007 at 10:57 am

   This little camera is great. Unfortunately the week after I bought mine it went on sale everywhere. It was at least $50 less than what I paid. Oh well, I still have no regrets. To see some footage from my camera visit http://www.canonhv20.com

8. 8 Heather May 2nd, 2007 at 10:54 am

   How do I capture the Canon HV20 footage into final cut pro 5.1.4 ? I’m having problems…It captures fine in imovie…

9. 9 Kendal Miller May 2nd, 2007 at 2:07 pm

   We are trying to track down a definitive answer on this. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a lot of clarity at the moment.

10. 10 Matthew Jeppsen May 2nd, 2007 at 3:09 pm

    If the iMovie captures look fine, they CAN be used in FCP.

    “Open iMovie HD
    Create a new “My Great Movie” in 1080i
    Capture the footage
    Save, quit
    Right click the recently captured “My Great Movie”
    Goto “Show Package Contents”
    Drag out the “Media” folder that contains every HDV clip in Apple’s intermediate codec.”

    See this DV Info thread for related discussion: http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=91899

    -MJ

11. 11 Leon May 17th, 2007 at 3:23 pm

    Groovy stuff guys - i saw the camera in a Jumbo sales room (UAE) and i am impressed with what it can do, i just got into making short movies and i started with a 5 years old JVC, naff indeed, i think its time to get something that doesnt die after 20 mins. cheers

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