stickyfingerz

Mike, that Panasonic is a great camera, and the ability to shoot true HD to the P2 cards is nice, but for porn purposes it's way overkill for almost every conceivable purpose or client. Most of us are compressing this footage to wmv or quicktime anyway for the end user, so no one is going to notice the difference, put their cock away and say, "hey, I really appreciate that 4:2:2 colorspace!"

And according to the article the Panny does shoot hdv (but not HD) to mini-DV tape.

By the way, editing HDV footage using an intermediate format like I do with Premiere Pro 1.5.1 and the Aspect HD plugin is actually quite easy compared to uncompressed HD. It captures and edits almost exactly like DV. The only pain in the ass is the fact that in my case I have to deinterlace every clip (shot with the FX-1) which takes a long time and then the rendering out to the finished format(s) like wmv or mov takes FOREVER compared to DV! Instead of 25 minutes to 35 minutes to output a 35 minute scene to say, a 640 x 480 wmv at 1500 Kb bitrate, a 1440 x 1080 16x9 wmv at 4300 Kb bitrate, now takes up to 10 hours to encode if you add a watermark to it even with my dual core pc![/QUOTE]

Try exporting your final cut to Mpeg 2 Jim. I do that, then use sorenson to compress to my desired final. Mpeg 2 you can de interlace then also. I use adobe premiere pro 2.0 not sure if 1.5 to 2.0 had any differences, but thats been the fastest way for me. I rarely render any of my effects or transistions as I use ones normally I already know what they will look like, or I can get a good idea right from the timeline. Export to mpeg 2 is very quick too. Sorrenson is much faster than the adobe encoder too, and compresses better and gives a better final product. I normally edit and export and compress a full 60 minute tape within 4 hours encoding and all. Oh when I export the mpeg 2 I do it to the full size that way its very little compressing done by adobe encoder.