Lock and load !

The way I work ( and I dont have a q core yet I admit) editing hdv footage is just a crawl - my middle name is 'gaussian blur -chromakey - color correct - sharpen - radial blur - motion blur -40 tracks ' - I found the time penalties incurred with hdv and th eslug like timeline made it undeitable in fx heavy projects.

That was the context of my reply.

As for hardware - still rare.

As for cameras and hdv I still maintain that it is a half arsed concept deisgned to shift boxes, but having said that in my small expirience of these things the FX1 and similar do exploit the pixels available - anything less wont be better than same spec DV.

And when the action is fast moving I think DV can look better.

It cracks me up when people ask me if the ouput from my jvc is hdv - it aint, but there again new 2 years ago it was £7000 - so it should be good !