Panasonic Pro AG-HSC1U AVCHD 3CCD Flash Memory Camcorder with 12x Optical Zoom

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