Canon HV10

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The Canon HV10 is a consumer high definition video (HDV) camcorder manufactured by Canon released in Sept. 2006

[edit] Specifications

The HV10 features both HDV and DV recording. DV can be recorded in both 4:3 and 16:9 formats. In Europe, the camcorder is called the HV10E and features PAL DV recording in addition to HDV 1080i50 mode. The HV10 does 1080i60 and NTSC. It can capture video at the full 1080 X 1920 interlaced resolution, however the horizontal resolution is reduced when it is stored to tape in the HDV standard of 1080 X 1440 resolution.

[edit] Usage

Users have found ways to create 540 X 720 progressive video from this camera by simply discarding the odd numbered fields of the interlaced video and resizing the horizontal to 50% using even freeware video software. This lends itself to superior progressive quality anamorphic DVDs similar to Hollywood film sourced DVDs but with a higher frame rate of 30 frames per second. 480 X 720 (for NTSC) anamorphic video can be created by resizing 540 to 480 scanlines (a 88.88% scaling factor) which will play at the 16:9 aspect ratio of anamorphic full resolution DVDs.