I have a canon hv20, can i take its tape and put it in my sd camera and still capture in hdv? im trying to avoid putting hours on the heads. if that doesnt work, what else is an alternative?
No you can't, it needs to be an hdv camcorder to playback and capture hdv. The only options are to get an hdv deck, which is way too expensive, or find the cheapest hdv camcorder you can and use that to capture.