Mikungfu
Active member
Hi everyone,
I am a professional videographer and work with 2 Canon XL2 for shooting all sorts of events: Weddings, concerts, congresses, institutional DVD for companies, etc... I live in Europe and my system is PAL.
I am thinking of doing a major upgrade to HDV. That means not only the upgrade of my NLE system (new workstation, new capture card...), as also an upgrade of my Canon XL2 camcorders to a pair of Canon XLH1 ones.
Amongst many new great features XLH1 provides, it will be a lot easier to do multicamera shooting, not to mention being able to offer HDV choice to my clients... Although the market is 80-90% still not ready for that, specially amongst the average consumers. On the other hand, the same fact that most people still don't have HDV ready TVs, etc... makes me wonder if this is the right time for such investments.
I wouldn't hesitate in upgrading my NLE system right now, as it will considerably improve my workflow even if I keep shooting DV... However, when it comes to upgrading XL2 to XLH1, thats a different story. By the time the market will be demanding me to deliever my product in HDV, Canon will have probably come out with XLH2, so I feel tempted to wait for a XL2 to XLH2 upgrade instead of rushing to do a XL2 to XLH1 upgrade.
Another reason for that, and probably the most important is my uncertainty about the image quality of Canon XLH1 when shooting in SD/DV.
As long as the market doesn't want HDV from me, I will still have to deliever my product in SD/DV, and I'm afraid of wasting $10000 in an upgrade (considering I sell both my XL2) to end up with lower quality SD/DV footage.
Bottom Line: I'd like to make sure that the Canon XLH1 not only shoots in HDV, but that it also has an SD/DV image quality at least as good as the XL2.
Can anyone here compare the SD/DV image quality of the XL2 Vs XLH1, both in interlaced and progressive modes? Does the 24f means any difference in quality between the progressive mode of the XL2 and the XLH1 (in SD/DV, of course).
I am a professional videographer and work with 2 Canon XL2 for shooting all sorts of events: Weddings, concerts, congresses, institutional DVD for companies, etc... I live in Europe and my system is PAL.
I am thinking of doing a major upgrade to HDV. That means not only the upgrade of my NLE system (new workstation, new capture card...), as also an upgrade of my Canon XL2 camcorders to a pair of Canon XLH1 ones.
Amongst many new great features XLH1 provides, it will be a lot easier to do multicamera shooting, not to mention being able to offer HDV choice to my clients... Although the market is 80-90% still not ready for that, specially amongst the average consumers. On the other hand, the same fact that most people still don't have HDV ready TVs, etc... makes me wonder if this is the right time for such investments.
I wouldn't hesitate in upgrading my NLE system right now, as it will considerably improve my workflow even if I keep shooting DV... However, when it comes to upgrading XL2 to XLH1, thats a different story. By the time the market will be demanding me to deliever my product in HDV, Canon will have probably come out with XLH2, so I feel tempted to wait for a XL2 to XLH2 upgrade instead of rushing to do a XL2 to XLH1 upgrade.
Another reason for that, and probably the most important is my uncertainty about the image quality of Canon XLH1 when shooting in SD/DV.
As long as the market doesn't want HDV from me, I will still have to deliever my product in SD/DV, and I'm afraid of wasting $10000 in an upgrade (considering I sell both my XL2) to end up with lower quality SD/DV footage.
Bottom Line: I'd like to make sure that the Canon XLH1 not only shoots in HDV, but that it also has an SD/DV image quality at least as good as the XL2.
Can anyone here compare the SD/DV image quality of the XL2 Vs XLH1, both in interlaced and progressive modes? Does the 24f means any difference in quality between the progressive mode of the XL2 and the XLH1 (in SD/DV, of course).
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