good camera?!

magicace · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 180 City: houston

i just got a Canon HG10... good camera to do some videoin with?

its a 40g hard drive camera with HD recording...

EJazzle · Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject:

magicace, it seems good.

avchd is not compatible with that many editing programs yet. so you might run into some problems there.

its canons first HD harddrive camera , which means they havent had that much time to work out all the kinks.

just make sure you research everything ALOT!

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masi · Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject:

magicace, it looks like it has a lot potential. As ej said Hard drive cameras were just recently introduced to the market so they have a long way to go before they become adaptable with all of the editing programs and before they remove all of the flaws. Have fun with it and really try to learn everything about your camera. you can make a $500 dollar camera look as nice as a $2000 camera if you know what your doing. good luck

magicace · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 180 City: houston

you guys know any programs that are compat with avchd?

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

the new sony vegas is.

I personally would pass on the HDD cameras. too many moving parts in a hard drive camera is a bad idea IMO.. It seems as if everyone is shifting to SDHC cards for the new recording media format.

At frys I picked up a HD compadible SDHC 16gb card for 59 bucks.. and in six months I'm sure a 32gb SDHC card will be out for $100 or less.

but if the hdd camera you're looking at is a good deal, then go for it!

ps. avchd is a pain in the ass. make sure you have a badass computer with lots of CPU power. Something like a Core2Duo, for sure.

magicace · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 180 City: houston

well the camera was a gift for me for my trip to china tomorrow, and they said they got a badass deal on it thats why they got it... so i am kinda stuck with it but so the sony vegas is compat with it, ok i just need to know what editing programs i can use for this badboy

EJazzle · Posted: Aug 07, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject:

magicace, you'll be really happy with it! canon always makes an awesome product! good luck and have fun with it!

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scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

Chris Barcellos, How is the "HD compatible" SDHC card different from the one I can stick in my 1D? Isn't memory just memory, or is it optimized somehow for video work?

And I would absolutely pass on cameras that have spinning hard drives in them. If they're solid state drives then great...but not if they involve moving parts.

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scott a, Im not positive, but I think it has to do with speed and quality

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

It's not specialized for HD or any kind of video, it is just verified by a class designation for certain bit rates of HD. You want to make sure your card is fast enough to support the crazy high bit rates of hd.

The card I just bought was a class6. I'm not sure what that transfers over to in a 100x 130x or whatever speed, but i do believe there is a chart somewhere online for class to card speed.

magicace · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 180 City: houston

This sucks, i wish i could pack my board for china i heard they have some cable parks in some places...

EJazzle, besides the sony vegas you know any other programs compat with avchd

EJazzle · Posted: Aug 07, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject:

magicace, no. im pretty sure none of the adobe are.

do you have any footy yet?

i have pinnacle studio 11. and you can send me a clip and i'll see if it works on there.

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