damn,
Seems like my computer(P4 2.28, 1G RAM) has hard time playing the footages.
The footages are all very choppy.
I read somewhere that P4 3.0 is required for editing HDV.
Yes, it's an MPEG-2 transport stream. You can drag and drop the files on the Vegas timeline and it'll play 'em. If your program refuses to acknowledge them, you might try renaming them to .mpg, that should work.
I did a test on one of the interlaced clip , not the fake 24p ones.
I did a 2:3 pullup from HDV res 60i to DV res 24p and a normal interlaced scale from HDV res 60i to DV res 60i. I transfered both results to DVD mpeg and I was amazed of the results on my projector. Both looked THE SAME quality sharpwise, STUNNING ! This was wonderfull to see since if you do a 2:3 pullup from DV res 60i to DV res 24p, you loose a lot of the sharpness because of the field blending.
I'm very happy with this test and I wish I could post the DVD mpegs to show it, but I have no web space.
It surtainly looks very interesting to me now to shoot HDV 60i with the FX1 and transfer it to DV 24p for stunning reults !
Of course ... HDV 60i to HDV 24p will most likely loose sharpness because of blending fields. Nag nag nag ...
Also. Using the XL2 will give stunning results also in native DV 24p and I will not have to do all these tricks to get it there. But the price tag is like between $3700 and $5000.