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Panasonic Pro AG-HSC1U AVCHD 3CCD Flash Memory Camcorder with 12x Optical Zoom
- Record HD video direct to SDHC cards; up to 1 hour on a 4 GB SDHC card
- 3CCD system delivers improved color, detail, and gradation
- Leica Dicomar lens with 12x optical zoom; built-in O.I.S.
- 5.1-channel audio recording; Zoom mic function adjusts audio to match camcorder movement
- Includes 40 GB portable hard disk drive and 4 GB SDHC memory card
Product DescriptionThe new records HSC1U beautiful, detailed High Definition video images and clear, high-quality sound that make for exceptional viewing on today’s most advanced home theater systems. The HSC1U recordings directly onto high-capacity SDHC memory cards. This robust, compact model debuts as the world’s smallest and lightest 3CCD High Definition video camcorder, and with no moving parts in the recording section, the HSC1U also extremely resistant to impatient. . . More>>
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about 1 year ago
Review: Write down all you want just do not try to edit one of the video. The color saturation is very good, unless the backlight in this case everything is washed out. The focus is very good. Every movement produces a slight vibration coming staccato as in the picture I believe is from the internal camera stabilization system device. I would like to show all of the above, but my Final Cut Studio is based not edit Bay AVCHD support. It is possible, from the HDMI connection with a quantity of IFS, if you have a tower that the capture cards are supported, that support HDMI. As I am not one of these, my most excellent pictures of exotic animals from Costa Rica to live in the camera. Rating: 5.3
about 1 year ago
Review: This is a good production from a few things. The battery life on the camera and the external hard drive is very bad. The software that comes with the camera can only work on Windows XP or 2000. . . Sorry Mac or Vista user. However, Panasonic has an application that can work on Windows Vista, but it is to have in the Japanese’s. If you Finial Cut Studio 2 running on your Mac, you can import it into your schedule. I do not have to work it with Adobe or Avid editing programs. The sound is pretty good about the type of camera. If you need a small 3-CCD camera stores, on a memory card I would suggest you consider what a little cheaper. . . maybe a Sony HDV cam? Hope this helps! Rating: 5.3
about 1 year ago
Review: I love this camera. It is tiny, but not like a toy to feel. The autofocus is very good and fast enough for my needs. The 12x optical zoom with optical Image Stabilizer zoom is great. The picture quality is amazing (although I must say I jumped a number of technologies such as my previous video camera S-VHS). The lack of a comprehensive AVC-HD support has cause me some pain (mostly financial solved) as I changed it from Adobe Premiere Sony Vegas (for a number of reasons including the lack of AVC-HD support in Premiere). So far I have not been able to AVC-HD video in all media players I see have to load Vegas, only to watch the raw video on my PC successfully. I bought a much larger 16 GB SDHC card included, as the 4GB card was simply too small for my needs, and after using the camera for a while, I plan to buy a second battery (I to about 80 minutes from the battery). Speaking of battery, the charger has a strange mood that you’re not in the battery at the same time you are turning on the camera. This seems strange to me, and I forgot the cable from the charger once or twice and not with a charged battery (it does not matter if the camera is actually connected, or at the end pull, there is obviously a switch, beaten , when you plug in the camera so it must be unplugged from the power supply to recharge the battery). The camera itself will not recharge a battery in the camera, they can charge you either a battery or power the camera, never work beide.Die microphones (all 5 of them) on the camera when recording video, as long as the Action pretty close. This is not a complaint, as I would have been shocked if the camera did well far in the recording (it’s not magic) and it has fortunately an external microphone jack (which I admit that I did not use, such as I usually record the digital audio-on-site with my Wolverine or Nomad Jukebox 3). should do for family videos it is great to capture very reasonable Ton.Sie know that the external backup disk is large. The hard drive is almost as long and as wide as the greatest weight of the camera itself (and not so thick heavy in the third dimension) and while the camera is, there is the hard drive a good run. The hard drive works and it works fine, but my feeling is that to go when force them to buy it as part of the package, then at least one large (100 GB or larger) hard drive (especially since the retail price for 40Gb drives are under $ 40). It should be voluntary or an accessory. I’m going with my Wolverine for this and Stick.Meine biggest complaint is that the camera always uses the image numbering. All other digital cameras I have owned a running count of video or still images hold recorded and numbered the files accordingly, until I can be me reset explicitly (as is my Sony F-828 is currently producing images like DSC08428. Jpg, which means that I have taken 8428 photos with this camera since I last reset). After the file number from 0 to the constant media means that I numbered them all in before I is a chance, take it accidentally overwrite a previous file to kopieren.Eine further complaint about the camera that is about more than about an hour in a time record in a “normal” quality will. I suspect that this is a file size issue and if it close, they will flash the display and then simply stop recording. How stupid is that? I understand that the file system on the card may have restrictions, but how hard it would have been to simply open another file and keep recording until the media was full of (hopefully without video skip between files)? If there was an option for this I have not found it yet. This restriction left me a few minutes of video in the middle of a performance I was to miss the reception, so I was very angry. Now that I am over the limit I can probably work around it, to know, but why should I? The camera takes pictures that look more reasonable, but many of them have a strange “cut-out” quality to them ( as the foreground and background are separated). I’m not sure if this is an influence haloing or otherwise, but I do not buy the camera for still pictures and for the occasional still good enough. It will definitely not replace my F-828 for Standfotos.Ich can not come on the software with the camera, how do I use do not comment on it. I have the download “AVC-HD to DVCPRO Transcoder” have from the Panasonic web site (not managed to find the software easily) [. . . ]. Note that you have to go through some major annoyance because they have to send you an email with a custom password (which is not working for me the first time, but the second). Abstract: In general, I think that is a great camera for HD video in a very small package with the features I needed. There are a few quirks and I still have a few other minor complaints, but they have so far been working well all around. All-in-all I am very happy with this camera and now that I know about the file size limit, it is not too difficult to work it. Support for AVC HD encoding is sparse, but growing fast. [Update: 17/06/2009] I’ve finally allow me a codec, AVC-HD directly Clock in the Windows Media Player, Cyberlink HD264 AVC-HD codecs. It is not free ($ 40), but playing a good job, the videos back. Search for CyberLink HD264 Pack for WMP. [Update: 15/12/2009] Windows Media Player 7 will play files natively. Rating: 5.5
about 1 year ago
Review: I bought this camera when I was a holiday overseas. It is great camera for the amount of money. So, I edited my recordings timeline video clips with Sony Vegas Pro to a Blu-ray movies to make. It’s unreal, it is sharp, but the only thing I did: I had to import the video clip on its own software that came with the camera and then save it as an MPEG2 file before I transfer to the Vegas time line can. If someone has a better idea, please let me know. Thanks Thomas B. Rating: 5.4
about 1 year ago
Review: The AG-HSC1U is a very small camcorder for my particular use of the size and solid-state recording was a big part of the dawn of the camcorder Wahl.Nach impressed with beautiful pictures, but for interviews you need to mount a bracket to to hold the microphone, I have a shoe with two mounts for a video light, the faces of pop and a microphone would be to be nice have a headphone jack, but there is no such thing, instead there is a recording level indicator on the screen was I am a bit worried about starting this, but in practical daily use, very good camcorder funktioniert.Dieser a “Pro” version of the older Panasonic SD1 camera, the colors were optimized to fit the look of other professional cameras, it works well and I find the shots to play nice with a lot more expensive than the Panasonic Pro-Kameras.Anders most serious Camcorder This camera is mostly menu-driven, there is no burden on the salary. However, there is a small joystick that it can easily, adjust the lighting. the most commonly used settings by setting the slider to Manual mode available, and press the joystick again, this will toggle you through the settings one at a time, you can an option by having the cursor sideways – once selected can move to increase sideways or decrease a setting such as aperture, gain or shutter speed, press down to leave an option. works in practical use as simple and are easy to find out, I use the aperture all the time and it is the first option when I turn on manual, as it was last used. The camera was so easy to judge zebra stripes, is the Exposition.Die camera could have been possible a bit more dynamic, but I have not found that there is a problem, I usually shoot in the open interviews with graduated ND filter in the sky and control the use of a reflector, a little light on the top of the pop-face, which is also in the ND-filter, the results look great and not from a cheap camcorder searching right lens is longer than the other SD cameras with 12x zoom, this is really about as long as you can somehow keep, I use this camera mostly on monopod or handheld in the cockpit of aircraft. The lens is sharp and without Vignettierung.Die edit AVCHD files with Vegas Pro 8, I have not tried, economic compression, and use only the best quality setting, which looks beautiful on the screen. An added bonus is the 40gig portable hard drive which ships with this camera model, the drive is battery operated and I have successfully dumped leads five days worth of cards on the drive without charge erforderlich.Generell the camera well and overall I am very happy with this purchase, it also plays with other Cameras , and I get a second for the company. In my personal opinion of this camera is highly recommended, as long as we recognize that some restrictions, there to serve you well and deliver the pictures you is for production use. Ultimately, only you can decide if this camera “to do the trick for you, your needs and the performance vs. price of the camera, you can find larger cameras with more features for the same price, but they are pretty darn hard to plug in pocket in the cockpit. Rating: 5.5