HF100 and PC - easiest capture?
 

I have got a new HF100 with a 16 GB card that comes with Pinnacle studio 11. How do I capture the footage? Easiest solution anyone?

I saw there is a DVD burner DW-100 what are the pros and cons of burning DVDs?

Kind regards Erik

Using the USB reader/adapter that comes with some of the SDHC cards you simply copy the .MTS files over to the /PINNACLE/Captured Video folder or a project subfolder under the Captured Video one.

When you have Pinnacle Studio in edit mode, set the "album" for files rather than scenes and browse to your project subfolder. The files should show up with thumbnails.

Remember: Pinnacle advises a quad core processor with a 2.66GHz clock speed or higher for 1920x1080 AVCHD editing. Mine is 2.4 GHz and just barely handles it, so until I can change processors I set the cam for 1440x1080 at 12Mbps (I also have the HF100)

A good fast dual core can also work with 1440x1080. Pinnacle Studio is one of the easiest solutions for editing AVCHD because it handles it natively with no need to transcode to another codec.

Good luck.

Thanks Bruce!

My processor is not that fast either so I guess I have to set the camera at 12 Mbps until then. Have you noticed any artifacts on moving subjects when you only use half the HDV-bitrate?

Does the camera automatically change to 1440x1080 when you change to 12Mbps?

Is there a way of converting 17Mbps to 12Mbps afterwards?

/Erik

Yes. On the HF100, I believe all the modes except the highest use 1440x1080.

Not without re-encoding, in which case you might as well transcode to an intermediate format that is less CPU intensive for editing.

Any difference in detail is pretty slight, I've not noticed anything significant. Nor have I noticed any artifacts on moving subjects. But one thing I am doing is shooting at 30p

All of my TVs are now LCD and therefore progressive, most everyone I know buying new TVs are buying LCD or Plasma and when I burn DVD's I check the "use progressive scan encoding" box in the "settings" on the make movie tab.

One other thing I've started doing is to make myself an AVCHD file. I do this by selecting AVCHD disk but in the settings I check "create file but do not burn".

I have no bluray player or PS3 but can watch the AVCHD file using the Pixela ImageMixer3 Player included on the disk with the camera.