I don't have experience with that camera, but normally the HD component would be uncompressed, so you should be getting 422 out of it, the firewire is

Re: 422 from a Canon XH A1s
From what I?m told, the *G*1s has ?studio connectivity? with HD-SDI output for uncompressed Full HD (1920x1080) video with 4:2:2 colour sampling and

422 from a Canon XH A1s
Actually, I¹m using FCP 6 with the AJA io HD as AJA doesn¹t have a driver for FCP 7 yet. From what I can gather on the web, you can only get uncompressed

422 from a Canon XH A1s
Can anyone tell me if I can capture 4:2:2 from my Canon XH A1s by using the HD component out with a AJA IO HD to a MacPro (dual quad 2.8 GHz, 8 Gigs Ram and a