Pinnacle 10.5 HDV Problems? (Sony HC3)

[sprognak]

Having a play with Pinnacle Studio 10.5 which supposedly supports HDV, but as soon as I switch to HDV in the capture menu, the aspect ratio greys out and becomes unchangable. It sticks at 4:3 and there is no way I can see to change it to 16:9.

Soon as I then start capturing, it bombs out due to a "aspect ratio change"... (Because the camcorder is pumping out 16:9 as normal).

Anyone seen this before?

[chrishull3]

strange one,i use 10.5 titanium edition because for me its easy and does most things i want to do with my hc1e i just go to settings on capture then hdv and hdr-hc1e camcorder shows up for capture.if iwant to capture from my 2100 i go to settings and dv video.i have never tried to burn a dvd from a hdv project as i am not sure how[pretty thick]one thing i wont bother doing again is an upgrade as going to 10.6 caused all my projects to lose there sound on the origional track[not music]if i went on a particular project,so 10.6 was taken off and 10.5 put back,sorry i cant be of much help to you.

[sprognak]

Fixed it. Complete reboot and replugging of everything in - then go to project options and set manually to 1080i HDV 50fps. It now describes it as 4:3 in settings but records at 16:9.

[senu]

Originally Posted by sprognak

Fixed it. Complete reboot and replugging of everything in - then go to project options and set manually to 1080i HDV 50fps. It now describes it as 4:3 in settings but records at 16:9.

It is possible to view it as 16:9 during editing though by right clicking and selecting : Aspect ratio 16:9.
This merely changes the way Studio displays it and doesnt relate to how it was taken or how it will be outputted

Originally Posted by chrishull3

strange one,i use 10.5 titanium edition because for me its easy and does most things i want to do with my hc1e i just go to settings on capture then hdv and hdr-hc1e camcorder shows up for capture.if iwant to capture from my 2100 i go to settings and dv video.i have never tried to burn a dvd from a hdv project as i am not sure how[pretty thick]one thing i wont bother doing again is an upgrade as going to 10.6 caused all my projects to lose there sound on the origional track[not music]if i went on a particular project,so 10.6 was taken off and 10.5 put back,sorry i cant be of much help to you.

PS: Studio has a 10.7 ( beta ) patch Im not sure how this improves the performance re: upgrading but the upgrades are meant to improve not worsen user experience. However if it aint broke.....

You can burn a Mini HD-DVD onto normal DVD from HDV material but not with Studio as it doesnt have the authoring tool to do so.
Thie MiniHD-DVD can however only play on an HD DVD player. Otherwise you can of course Downconvert in-camera to SD to make a "normal DVD ( Im sure you knew that) or make a WMV-HD DVD playable on PC with a guide : Windows Media Encoder ( Series 9)