Hi. I am using Sony HVRa1e and want to capture HDV. I have set the camera to HDV 1080i. I use firewire. Before I have always filmed only SD and captured. This resulted in avi files about 13 GB per hour. All fine. The HDV test I did of about ten minutes captured fine. Appeared to go into the editing are and be manipulated fine. So what is my problem? Well maybe nothing. It is just that when I looked at the captured file, it was an MPEG and just under 2GB for ten minutes. I was expecting larger, as DV was 13 GB an hour. It looked okay, and seemed to work okay. As I am a bit visually impaired I would not see small quality differences, but customers might! So, is this normal? Yes, I did set Premiere to HDV1080i. I did not see any other quality choices anyway. With DV I love the full quality avi. No compression until I am ready to render for DVD. Perfect! So why was this HDV smaller in memory size? Am I losing quality that I could retain? I dont care how much hard drive files use up, and I have a computer hefty enough to handle things. SORRY if I have not told you anything important that I should have done. I usually get told off for this on adobe forum, and from choice stick to the Sony ones as they go easier on me! No offence meant! But this is a premiere issue. I dont know what SDI is. I use firewire. Just want the best quality footage to edit from HDV tape. Oh, when capturing the window did not show the film or play sound, just a few words in several different languages! But no great peoblem as it played fine in the editing window and the lcd on the camera shows fine. I did chose 25fps. Is that correct for HDV from a sony that states 1080i on the screen but nothing about frame rates? Just trying to give you as much as I can. I am not skilled on these things technically, I just film and edit. Thanks again
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