Recommended HD camera

[LouBruno]

Makes two of us.......we are only human. However, your advice is right on target-great recommendation. I get to play with the Canon XF-100, Canon X A10 and the HG F10 this week. The Canon XF-300 works well in BOGART!!!!

HOT DAMN!!! That's what I get for speed reading with bad vision!!! I know better than that......I have been selling Canon for several years now...............

[ASHampton]

I had one of the 105's in the office a couple of months ago.....WOW! Man you are really going to love the small form factor. I have not pushed to get one of the XA10's so let me know what you think. Everything that I have seen and heard about it so far have been very good. I guess I will order some here pretty soon. I do have an HV40 for sale.....The problem is that not many folks are looking at them any more because many people look at the HDV format as old hat.

[Alan]

Another very good HD camera is the Panasonic HDC-TM700. Its not very often that something is better than I expected when I actually get it, but this is a great little camera. Fits in the pocket, excellent image stabilization and a superb picture. Importantly it edits with no problems on my S4000pro.

Alan

[LouBruno]

Just be careful in a warm envirnment with this camera. There is an internal FAN which goes on. A newer camera, the 900, does not have the fan plus you can add a 3-D attachment to the camera which may be useful when and if, MS releases their 3-D software.

Another very good HD camera is the Panasonic HDC-TM700. Its not very often that something is better than I expected when I actually get it, but this is a great little camera. Fits in the pocket, excellent image stabilization and a superb picture. Importantly it edits with no problems on my S4000pro.

Alan

[Alan]

Yes, there is a fan and it runs at all times; however so far it has not intruded into any of my videos. With most cameras having internal microphones the most intrusive noise is usually from the zoom motor. If I want top quality sound I always use an external mic. Keep in mind a fan means cool electronics. My own experience in the electronics industry is that a 10 degree centigrade rise in operating temperature usually means a doubling of the product failure rate.

Alan

[krlehman]

Prestige and High Definition Hookup from Canon 60D

We just bought a Canon 60D. It has a mini hdmi out and a dv out. I want to connect it to the dv in/out on our Prestige to see if we can get some high definition footage we took.
Anyone know if this will work? Or must we buy the Macrosystem S-Series (making us plum broke) or edit on my computer in lieu of.....???

[CasablancaExpert]

We just bought a Canon 60D. It has a mini hdmi out and a dv out. I want to connect it to the dv in/out on our Prestige to see if we can get some high definition footage we took.

Anyone know if this will work? Or must we buy the Macrosystem S-Series (making us plum broke) or edit on my computer in lieu of.....???

Congratulations on your new Canon 60D!
I would recommend double checking the outputs as I believe what looks like a DV port is actually a mini-USB jack. The video files on the 60D are .MOV files which are not transferred via fire-wire.

While it may be possible to perform a conversion in your PC to get the .MOV files into your Prestige, they will be SD rather than HD, and they will have to be either compatible AVI files (imported via Disk Transfer) or a video stream, output from your PC via fire-wire or analog video board into your Prestige.

As you guessed, it takes the processing power of the newer S-series Casablanca editors along with their new functions of the Bogart V3+ OS version to work smoothly with the newer file-based camcorders and HD-DSLR cameras.

Regards,
Chet