What Camera Should I get

[Danny Winn]

You should get the Canon XH A1s (around $3.399) and worth it. It shoots full HD and is beautiful. Don’t worry about switching to Final Cut, you can do all the same things in Premiere Pro and faster.

Here’s a sample of one of my projects with the XH A1s and Premiere Pro & After Effects in one scene. Be sure to watch in HD if you have an HD monitor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMXsZEwBV10

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[Vince Becquiot]

I would highly recommend a used HVX 200, or even better, a used HPX 170.

Because these cameras are not usually used much in tape situation, the wear is often minimal. And the format is very much superior to most other camcorders in that price range.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Tim Kolb]

[Danny Winn] “You should get the Canon XH A1s (around $3.399) and worth it. It shoots full HD and is beautiful.”

When most would refer to “full HD” it would typically be referring to full raster (1920×1080), and of course the Canon looks very good, but it is still HDV in it’s on-board recorder (1440×1080 non-square pixels).

[Danny Winn] “Don’t worry about switching to Final Cut, you can do all the same things in Premiere Pro and faster.”

…except edit in HDV without converting the file wrapper and duplicating the footage, and integrate with a Photoshop doc layer-by-layer, and sub-frame audio edit on the video timeline, and link to an After Effects Comp and…

Final Cut is fine, but this IS the Adobe Premiere Pro forum.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Danny Winn]

Well yes Tim, touche.
the Canon shoots at 1440×1080, that is true. Just make sure to export your project at 1920×1080 end product looks the same to me.

As far as the final cut extra features, I personally have never needed to use the one’s you pointed out but I am but 1 of many. My point was that if you know PPro already, it will do pretty much all the essentials of editing that one would need for film making and corporate type spots.

All the cool bells and whistle’s for me come from After Effects. And you can import a PPro project into After Effects, I generally have not needed to pull an After Effects comp into PPro. But as they say, there are many ways to skin a cat.

When I did use Final Cut, it was so much slower than Premiere Pro with a comparable system. That was my main reason for sticking with PPro.

[Tim Kolb]

[Danny Winn] “When I did use Final Cut, it was so much slower than Premiere Pro with a comparable system. That was my main reason for sticking with PPro.”

Oh…I took your comment to mean the opposite actually.

My bad.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,