FCP 7 and Canon VIXIA G10

[David Eaks]

No problems with the G10s recordings here. Successfully recorded to 32 gb class 10 SD cards or internal memory on 6-7 ~2 hour projects so far. L&T in FCP 7 works fine, edit native in FCPX is fine. I haven’t really looked into the in-camera audio, as I don’t use it.

I was actually pretty impressed with the quality from this little guy, i kind of just dismissed all consumer handy cams over the years, assuming they were crap but you can get a decent image with the right settings. My only problem is that the G10’s mini HDMI out will only give an SD signal to my Panasonic AW-HS50’s DVI input. And for that, I am returning the camera.

[Rafael Amador]

[David Eaks] “the G10’s mini HDMI out will only give an SD signal to my Panasonic AW-HS50’s DVI input. “
Even in stan by?
Sure no way to change it in the menus?
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[David Eaks]

I tried, didn’t find any settings to change the output, just a 1080p on/off. The manual even says “correct operation can not be guaranteed on DVI monitors”.

With an HDMI (f) to DVI (m) adapter on my switchers DVI input, I alternately plugged the G10’s HDMI into the switcher and then into a TV and back. Shows up 1080i on the TV and looks nice and crisp. Then plug it to the switcher and it’s input info shows SD, the image can be scaled (stretch/fit/crop) in the switcher but looks horrible when mixed with my Sony NX5’s. The G10’s video looks great once transferred from the card and doing a multican edit though. Definitely just what I wanted for a low cost camera to be used as a static wide shot, but I have to be able to mix it live. I’m going to try one of my AJA Hi-5’s to get the G10’s signal via SDI, but if I have to buy another Hi-5 just for this camera I might as well just buy a more expensive camera that either works with my DVI input or has HD-SDI out.

[Rafael Amador]

Thanks for the info David.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com