Canon Vixia HF G10 Sample videos

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I put my SD card in the HFG10 at CES 2011 to bring you these sample videos. Consider the camcorder is not totally finished, Canon may still be tweaking things in terms of quality. I couldn't fit my Sennheiser MKE400 Shotgun microphone for better directional audio recording in the thing, I guess Canon doesn't use standard shoe size, surely I could get an adapter.

As far as I understand the $1500 Canon Vixia HF G10 has the exact same optics and video recording quality as the $2000 Canon XA10, only difference being XLR inputs. Let me know if there is more differences? I wonder if there are good not too expensive XLR audio recording options for the two XLR inputs in XA10 and if I should go with that instead of the Seenheiser MKE400 shotgun microphone that I have been using for over a year.

Find my Samples posted to my website: Canon Vixia HF G10 Sample recordings – ARMdevices.net

24mbitps@1080p@24p Sample:
On YouTube: YouTube - Canon Vixia HF G10 Sample (24mbitps@1080p@24p)
Download sample on Google Docs (96MB for 34 seconds)

12mbitps@1080p@24p Sample:
On YouTube: YouTube - Canon Vixia HF G10 Sample (12mbitps@1080p@24p)
Download sample on Google Docs (52MB for 35 seconds, this is probably the quality I would record my video-blogging in for it not to take too long to upload to YouTube)

No in-camera cut and join editing? No 720p modes? No 60p mode? No overlay graphics integration (such as transparent png file with my logo at bottom right corner of videos)? No built-in Bluetooth mics and sound mixer (Canon says they got an external Bluetooth microphone option, though may not support more than one Bluetooth microphone at the time)? No built-in fast WiFi and Ethernet YouTube uploads? I would like a good in-camera compressor to make high quality at low manageable bitrates to upload HD on YouTube without requiring PC re-encoding, without it taking too long especially at conferences where there is slow upload speed. Those are features I would like in my next camera, but I still may do without if quality can be much improved over the Sanyo HD1000 that I have been using for all my video-blogging since March 2008. Do you think I should upgrade my video-blogging to this camera or do you have another suggestion for what new camera I should consider?
 
Maybe check out the Samsung HMXs15. There's been very little written about it, but it seems to have some good features including wireless capability and a backlit sensor, timelapse, 720 60p, 30p, 1080 30p and SD @30p. It also has an extremely high res screen, the best of just about any camera at any price. I wish someone would test this thing for crying out loud, it was introduced at the LAST CES in 2010. ON that note I wish there was a decent camcorder equivalent to DP REview or DCRP. The one's out on the web now, just don't cut it IMO.
 
pulpfiction007 said:
Maybe check out the Samsung HMXs15. There's been very little written about it, but it seems to have some good features including wireless capability and a backlit sensor, timelapse, 720 60p, 30p, 1080 30p and SD @30p. It also has an extremely high res screen, the best of just about any camera at any price. I wish someone would test this thing for crying out loud, it was introduced at the LAST CES in 2010. ON that note I wish there was a decent camcorder equivalent to DP REview or DCRP. The one's out on the web now, just don't cut it IMO.
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Wow that sounds cool. If the sensor is good at low light and that WiFi built-in feature. Though doing a quick search I can't find out if the WiFi can be used to directly upload to YouTube, if touchscreen or USB/BT keyboard can be used to edit title/description/tags directly on the camera while/before/after uploading to YouTube. It doesn't look like that Samsung HMX-S15 has a shoe mount for external shotgun microphone, I think I need that. And I don't know if it allows to insert a transparent png file as watermark with my logo or info about event I film. Thanks for the tip though and I'll be following the news from Samsung on their next WiFi HD camcorder having hopefully those features. Another cool feature would be real-time encoding of both max bitrate 1080p 24mbitps 60fps and a 2x to 3x lower bitrate 1080p 30fps for faster YouTube uploading. And the WiFi definitely needs to be as fast as using any WiFi-G PC with support for resume, also there needs to be an ethernet port in the camera for absolute fastest uploading. Then of course, apps for live video streaming to online services like Ustream, Justin.tv and others that come up (all the while recording the max and low bitrate 1080p files), as well as support for the cheapest setup for HD multi-camera IP based video coverage over WiFi or Ethernet.
 
As far as I understand the $1500 Canon Vixia HF G10 has the exact same optics and video recording quality as the $2000 Canon XA10, only difference being XLR inputs. Let me know if there is more differences?
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The XA10 has an infra-red function with IR illuminator similar to Sony's nightshot.
 
The $500 difference could certainly be worth not having to worry about a third-party XLR adapter in between. At least, in my use I found that to be quite annoying. That plus the extra "professional" look (I know, sorry) with clients is enough to make it worth it for my needs.
 
Zane DeMann said:
The $500 difference could certainly be worth not having to worry about a third-party XLR adapter in between. At least, in my use I found that to be quite annoying. That plus the extra "professional" look (I know, sorry) with clients is enough to make it worth it for my needs.
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Yeah, the XLR inputs could certainly come in handy. It is also important to look as professional as you can to a client. They do notice such things.
I like the way the XA10 looks without the top handle - so compact. It's like the VG10, pretty little cameras with a lot of performance.
 
We have customers come in all of the time and pass up smaller cameras with very good quality because they don't look "professional" enough. They say...."I can't walk into a wedding or event with such a small compact camera...no matter how good the image is". Bigger is not alwasy better. Take the SONY HVRHD1000U, I personally don't like the unit, but, custromers like it because its freakin huge and has a deceptivly pro look to it.

My two cents.
 
Seth Hampton said:
We have customers come in all of the time and pass up smaller cameras with very good quality because they don't look "professional" enough. They say...."I can't walk into a wedding or event with such a small compact camera...no matter how good the image is". Bigger is not alwasy better. Take the SONY HVRHD1000U, I personally don't like the unit, but, custromers like it because its freakin huge and has a deceptivly pro look to it.

My two cents.
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If people only care about looks I wish them luck in their marriage.
 
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