Seun Osewa

Yeah, any NLE would do although I personally would use VirtualdubMod and the highest quality resampling algorithm it has. For other NLEs it's a matter of resizing in "best quality" mode. Here are some Canon HV20 images you can play with: http://www.canonhv20.com/dir.php?cat=canon...0-sample-images I would never buy a single CCD DV camera, but the 3CCD GS 320 is more than good enough for web videos. For creating DVDs of the highest quality, I'd buy the Canon HV20, though the GS-320 is capable of doing a very good job. The Canon HV20 costs about the same as my GS-500 did one year ago.

What I've observed is that single CCD images tend to be "muddy" at their original resolution. e.g. http://447productions.com/HV20:noM2.jpg

Try taking a digital photo with a modern single chip digital still camera and scaling it to DV resolution in photoshop. Then compare the resulting image with a frame grab taken with a DV camera. A 3CCD chip is better if the resolution of the sensor is not much greater than the resolution of the intended output medium, otherwise all that matters is the effective size of the chip. If the image from s single sensor camera is good enough for HD, it would be perfect by the time you downsample to DV. Let me put it this way. The much-praised RED 4K camera is also a single chip camera, and is has no color reproduction problems. Same applies to the Panavision Genesis. These are all high end digital video cameras good enough for Hollywood studios, and they have just one chip. A single large chip with lots of pixels beats 3 tiny chips. Try getting some HD framegrabs on the Internet, downsampling to DV in photoshop and compare with DV framegrabs. The difference is clear. So you'll probably get better DVD videos from the HD camera. For 320x240px web videos, there is no difference.

Definitely the Canon HV20. - It has only one sensor, but it's a much bigger sensor. - Also, a 1CCD HD Camera is much better than a 3CCD DV Camera. If you capture in 1080p video and downconvert to DV, the result will be gorgeous. I own a Panasonic GS-500 (better than GS-320), but I'd swap it for a Canon HV20 any day. That's my next budget camcorder!