Deinterlace #Canon HV20/HV30/HV40 #HDV 60i #Video to MOV 24p for FCE/FCP/Adobe Premiere

Canon HV20/HV30/HV40 is a great choice for HD-happy amateurs, but its low-light performance could have been better. HV20 and HV30 wrap in 60i. Some confusion on if HV40 does/did the same. When it was launched it was claimed to be different, but in practice is it? It’s still a single CMOS sensor, and still HDV. And still looks a bit washed out without color grading IMO.
HDV stores the video as 1440 horizontal pixels by 1080 vertical pixels. FULL HD is typically 1920 horizontal and 1080 vertical. Both are 16:9 aspect rations. HDV is an mpeg2 codec and FULL HD / AVCHD / AVC1 is an h264 codec.

No matter what, if you have a Canon HV20/HV30/HV40 for shooting HDV 60i footages, you will have a problem of displaying the video with many interlaces. So before sharing your HDV footages with family, or before editing the HDV files with FCE/FCP/Adobe Premiere Pro/iMovie, you need deinterlace/convert Canon HV20/HV30/HV40 HDV (60i) files to HDV 1080p24 (*.mov) or HDV 720p24 (*.mov).

Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac as the recommended Canon HV20/HV30/HV40 HDV (60i) files to Apple HDV 1080p24 (*.mov) or HDV 720p24 (*.mov) Converter on Mac. It does not only allow you to trim and crop HDV footage, but also deinterlaces/merge HV20/HV30/HV40 HDV 1080i videos, convert 1080i to 1080p.

Below is the simple guide about how to deinterlace/convert Canon HV20/HV30/HV40 HDV (60i) files to Apple HDV 1080p24 (*.mov) or HDV 720p24 (*.mov) for FCE/FCP/Adobe Premiere Pro/iMovie. It also works for iMovie 8/9 and even 11.

Step 1. Download Canon HV20/HV30/HV40 HDV videos to Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac. Click the “Add” button to download 1080i .hdv files from camcorder to the application.

Step 2. Choose HDV 1080p/24 MOV or HDV 720p24 MOV output format.

Click the “Format” option, and navigate to FCP > HDV 1080p/24 (*.mov) or HDV 720p24 (*.mov) as output format. The Mac HV20/HV30/HV40 HDV to MOV converter will convert HV20/HV30/HV40 HDV files to MOV for FCE/FCP/Adobe Premiere Pro/iMovie.

Step 3. Deinterlace Canon HV20/HV30/HV40 HDV 60i video.

Select a clip on the file list, and the “Editor” button will be activated. Click the “Editor” button and go to the Effect tab to tick the checkbox for deinterlacing. The apply to all button is to deinterlace all the videos on current file list.

Step 4. Convert Canon HV20/HV30/HV40 HDV video to HDV 1080p/24 or 720p24 MOV for Mac.

Click the convert button under the preview window, the Mac Canon HV20/HV30/HV40 video converter will start the conversion and deinterlace Canon HDV 60i video to 24p MOV for fast editing in Final Cut Express, iMovie, and other Mac applications.

Tips: Pros and cons of MPEG-2 HDV vs H.264 AVCHD


Mpeg2 doesn’t require a lot of thinking by the computer. H264 does require quite a bit of decoding to render (or convert). Let’s call that speed. So mpeg2 is faster. But mpeg2 (HDV) isn’t as efficient and relatively wastes bits. With a minor trade off of having more bits (25Mpbs CBR) and fewer pixels to represent with those bits (1440×1080). If it were h264, it would be better. But since it’s not and h264 is more efficient, h264 (AVCHD) is generally considered better. Relatively anyway. They’re both compressed and lossy.

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Videora

I was doing my daily Internet surf, this time searching for an application that could help me upload my bunch of Simpsons episodes to my 16gb iPod Touch. After trying in Yahoo! Answers in both spanish and english versions, and under 3 different tags, Apple, and downloads.com, I came upon Videora.com. This surprised in a pleasant sort of way. I used to use Videora as a substitute for my BitTorrent application. That was 4 years ago, back in 2004. But it's 2008, and Videora isn't only a nice BitTorrent RSS Reader application anymore, but it's also the name given to it's series of video converters for multiple platforms (including Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, Wii, and Apple TV) and Media Center managers.

Really nice story, but you're probably asking yourselves: Does it work?

I tested the Videora iPod Touch converter version 3.7. If you try to look beneath the ad-filled (yeah, I forgot to tell you: it's freeware!!) application, you'll find yourself with a user-friendly tool, with 2 options: Normal Mode, and Power Mode.

Normal Mode is the easy mode of the application. In this mode, iPod Touch converter (and all other Videora converters) basically does everything for you. You only have to select how nice you want your video to look and sound and were do you want it to go. Depending on how large and the quality you want your video to have, the converter wil only spend a few minutes, or even seconds, working on converting your video.

Power Mode is made for those of you who like to have as much control over the video conversion as possible. To use it, you must understand technical jargon like AviSynth, 1 Pass, 2 Pass, the meaning of Kbps, MPEG-4, VGA, QVGA and H.264. It even has conversion profiles, if you like to experiment with different conversion settings, without having to reset your favorite conversion mode.

I'd say this is an indispensable application for those of you who like your vids nice and as perfect as possible. Oh, and also, if you own many iPods :D

Until next time!