HDV...I'm impressed

I've been digitizing footage from a shoot in Puerto Rico and one in India, shot with JVC's new HDV camera. It shoots 24 frames per second, just like film, but we shot it in 30 frame per second mode, progressive scan (which means each frame is a complete image, unlike your standard tv picture, which breaks the frame down into 2 separate images and "interlaces" them together).

That short lesson is important because the old rules of video said that screen grabs were difficult, and virtually unusable. HDV is not the resolution that you could get with a digital camera, so this picture wouldn't do well for an enlargement at all, but it's downright good for many other purposes. I'm just really pleased with the results, especially since it's a $6000 camera, separate HD lens included. It's a brave new world we're living in.