Well I would stay away from AVCHD as it is even more highly compressed than HDV so will never be as good as HDV. Apple has supported other JVC codecs before so we may hear about that at NAB.
<http://www.uwdv.com/index.php/option/content/task/view/id/120> On Feb 3, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Rupert wrote: > This is a question for the seriously technical among you - I don't > understand enough to know if this is an incredibly stupid question - > but is it not possible for some open source genius to work on open > source import/export codecs for FCP or for Premiere, for unsupported > formats? Or is it all too locked up in proprietary systems? Or is > it too complex? On the one hand, I've just been reading on message > boards how excited everyone is getting about AVCHD as a high-quality, > high-compression, low data-rate format, but that it can't be edited > until Sony/Apple/Adobe develop an official import/export codec for it > for their editing programs, which might be as much as a year away. > Any ideas on open source import/export alternatives for all > incompatible formats? > > Rupert > > > On 4 Feb 2007, at 00:57, Kunga wrote: > > This JVC HD Everio GZ-HD7 looks promising at only probably $1500 > street. I'm going to have to forget I don't like JVC brand and wonder > if we'll have import/export codecs for FCP soon. Wow. > > k > > On Feb 1, 2007, at 4:17 PM, Rupert wrote: > >> Also saw this JVC on Videomaker.com's weekly vlog last week, >> announced at CES - costs more but full HD and 5 hours of hard drive >> recording: >> >> <http://www.jvc.com/press/index.jsp?urlid=MPPress&item=565>
