PANASONIC's New AVCHD H.264/MPEG-4 HD Camcorders

[Specialist]

New consumer models coming.

http://tinyurl.com/jyrp7

"Panasonic announced this morning they will soon present a new compact camcorder design that will use SD cards, and will record video in HD with the AVCHD codec developed in partnership with Sony."

"Panasonic announced this product will have a 3CCD sensor, a 4GB SD card (SDHC), and will record up to 85 minutes of 6Mbps video, or 55 minutes of 9Mbps video."

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[BJ_M]

not really an editing format - though by some thoughts - neither is HDV

[GMaq]

Sounds Sweet!!
No tape, no disc, no friggin' mechanism to maintain. It would be nice if some of these units came with profiles for iPods and PSPs. Just Shoot & Sync. I posted a question a couple of months ago asking if anyone was using an MPEG-4 Camcorder and how they liked it, didn't get any responses then, Before they even hit the mainstream they'll probably be eclipsed by these HD/AVC Units!

[painkiller]

While it may not be that earthshaking, I must say I REALLY like the idea of recording to memory instead of disc or tape.

It makes for loading the video into editing that much easier and faster.

Sweet indeed.

[edDV]

Current P2 cards need to parallel 4x SD flash chips to get the bitrate for DVCProHD (100Mb/s) or DVCpro50 (50 Mb/s). By restricting recording to MPeg4 AVC @ 4 or 9Mb/s, maybe a single SD flash chip can be used. I need to dig into this.

But BJ_M is right, MPeg4 AVC is going to be a challenge to edit.

[killerhex]

well if theres editing sofware combine with it for that specific format it would be great

[kitty]

They used to say MPEG-2 was a pain to edit....

[BJ_M]

well if theres editing sofware combine with it for that specific format it would be great

vegas edits it directly - but thats besides the point ... the higher the compression ... well it is the same old story ....