[Ryan Orr]

What kind of video are you going to shoot? I ask cuz your answer would yield give a better answer from us.

I am a Canon fanboy. For me Canon is just lovely.

If you’re going to shoot stuff that’s for broadcast, and you don’t mind a slightly cropped sensor, then the Canon 7D is nice, because this will shoot 29.97fps. If frame rate isn’t too important (ei, web stuff), and you want a full sized sensor, go with the 5D MK II. That sensor if phenomenal.

Also, if you have existing video/photo gear, this may sway you one way or another too. If you have Nikon lenses and they fit the Video Nikon Video DSLRs your looking at, then go with Nikon. Don’t go and buy a new Video DSLR, only to find that your old lenses won’t work…unless you are totally fine with buying new lenses.

Of course, there are TONS of other factors that you will need to evaluate…they can sway you one way or another easily. Hopefully this part of the forums will start to largely populate so ppl can have better understandings of the Video DSLRs.

Good Luck!
Ryan~

[Ryan Orr]

Nels, my man, I have no experience with ANY of the Canon DSLRs that can do video…or the Nikons, or any other brand name DSLR. So I am completely clueless about the camera you’re talking about. I’ll Google about it tomorrow, and maybe reply here and make it sound like I know what I’m talking about, lol. But you get the point. This would be a magical thing.

Gord, you’re listing some good equipment, but the MXO2? You have to be tethered to the box AND a laptop AT LEAST. The nanoFlash is completely mobile, and I’d rather have that strapped to my rig then being umbilical’ed to the MXO2 AND a laptop. Unless say, you’re doing some studio work maybe…and it would be more convenient to do it your way. IDK…all depends on the workflow you can afford/care to adjust to.

*Side Topic*

Do we really want companies like Canon and Nikon give us EVERYTHING we could possibly want in these cameras? I mean…if I say, “Canon, I want you to give me a full sized 3 CCD sensor DSLR, two balanced xlr inputs, full 1080p uncompressed recording on inexpensive cards”… these said companies will have every reason and right to slap a multi-thousand dollar price tag on it(I know…in our dreams right now, but hey technology will make it happen some day right?).

For now, I don’t mind AT ALL the workarounds that have been so tried-and-true with these HD-DSLRs out in the market place. The very reasonable price tags make me happy enough. With the right workflows, work-arounds, shooting techniques and ingenuity, these cameras are boss. So don’t go ALL out Mr. Canon or Mrs. Nikon…unless you can do it and keep your very affordable price tags 🙂

[Ryan Orr]

I did not know about the bugs if you use parallels and surfing on the PC side. Interesting.

Well I’m sure I’ve showed my green side asking a silly question like that. I do work at our local television station, and do pro work there. We use PCs using Avid Newscutter (yeah, it’s a news station too). But I do a good amount of freelancing stuff that’s semi-local, and I’d like to think it’s pro. Like I said, I’m looking to get into the FCP, but at the same time, I do like the occasional game here and there.

I’m alittle lean on the money sides, but a few more jobs will pay me enough to build me a new FCP editing system, and possibly also get a PC laptop to safely do my personal stuff.

[Ryan Orr]

This is good. Been shooting/editing with what I had ever since I made my first post in this thread, and budgeted for a new camera ever since. Now that JVC has made this move, most likely I’ll be getting this camera.

I’ve been doing SD stuff for awhile now on my MacBookPro, while all this time my clients have been asking for HD content, and me telling them I can’t do it yet. But now I can get this camera and do my HD projects. Too bad DVD Studio Pro doesn’t do Blueray yet…sigh, guess I’ll stick with a duel booting to windows for that solution.

But I shouldn’t cry too much, or Ron Lindeboom will bash me again for the “treadmilling”

[Ryan Orr]

That is so stupid…stupid stupid stupid!

In my situation, everyone loses. JVC loses because I can’t buy their camera AND Sony’s SxS adaptor (huge ass dongle), and I can’t get a really good camera. For me, it’s either the SxS adaptor or buying a completely different editing hardware/software. Using the SDHC cards was a really good idea, and JVC (IMO) screwed all non-mac users pretty good on this one. I like macs, and I would love to learn how to edit on FCP, but unless Premier Pro can take in the FCP .mov files, I’m going to have to forget about the 700.

Dang…
Ryan

[Ryan Orr]

Wait a minute…I thought that the only way to get the .mp4 files was to attach the SxS adaptor? I’ve been reading all over the place that the .mov files were specific to only FCP…and if you wanted .mp4, you would have to attach the SxS adaptor.

From what I understand, if you want the .mp4 files on the SDHC you had to use the SxS adaptor, which basically acts like a behemoth of a dongle…it unlocks the .mp4 capabilities and you could record to the SxS cards or the SDHC cards, but whichever card you used, to get the .mp4 files you had to use the adaptor.

I edit on Adobe Premier Pro, and I was ecstatic about the HM700u and JVC’s use of the SDHC cards, until I heard that the only way you can use the video is to the additional SxS adaptor JUST to unlock the .mp4 capabilities. Am I wrong?

Thanks,
ironorr84

[Ryan Orr]

Ahhh…that sucks plenty, but I can’t complain too much. Honestly, I think my best bet would be to recreate it at work. it needs to be done either tomorrow (Thursday) by COB, or really early in the morning.

Thanks Kevin for the reply,
iRON