Photo: Canon T2i HDMI Capture in 720 Timeline

Jay, I just tried this with a T1i, and can confirm everything you said. Try as I might, there was no way to show the full frame of video, it always pushed the camera display information through as well. Pretty bad design.

I hacked it to work by simply zooming the capture in, since I'm capturing at 720p anyway, there isn't a huge drop in quality. However, I have to decide whether or not to drop 2 grand on a few of these, or not, and I don't want to have to hack a solution that costs that much. I think I'll hold off for a firmware update that fixes it, or a T3i that addresses it.

Thanks again for the information!

How does this compare to some of the HD Canon camcorders? I'm currently capturing with a BMIP via HDMI off of an HV30 and an HF200, and I'm trying to see if the T2i would give any better quality of picture. Obviously things like manual focus make it an even better prospect, but I want to know if the quality of the picture is even better, or if the limitation at this point is the capture card, the software, or both.

The quality of picture is way better but as I said in the post, it burns the on screen display into the HDMI feed so you have to do some fancy post work to get it out.

Huh, that's crappy. Are you sure you can't kill the display on TV out somewhere in the settings? My HF200 and HV30 did the same thing, and I had to dig down into the settings to figure out how to not have them show up (one of them was particularly hidden, I can't remember which, I think the HV30).

Positive. No can do. That's why I center-cropped and 2.35'd it.

Crappy. Good information for me though, thank you for that!

I do have word from sources that Canon is cleaning up that feed on the 5D. I would venture that the MK3 will have that feature.