Crash Cam

[digitalinnovations]

I have been looking over some different crash cams to use with my DVCPROHD projects. Sa far I have come up with 3 options. I need them to be self-contained (no deck required), solid state preferred, small in size to mount or place almost anywhere. Using these requirements I came across these 3 cameras:

• Panasonic HDC-SD5
• Panasonic AG-HSC1U
• JVC GZ-HD7

I am curious if anyone has experience or knowledge about these cameras. If you have shot or seen footage, how does it stack up? I will be using these outdoors as crash cams (as I mentioned) so low light should not be an issue. Also, a prerequisite is that I obviously need to be able to work with the footage now, in my FCP system. I don't know if there are conversion processes/software in place to make the footage editable in FCP yet or not in the case of the AVCHD codec.

Thank you so much in advance for taking the time!

 

[Spec-Comm]

You shouldn't have to worry much about codec issues. Panasonic has a free downloadable app that converts AVCHD to DVCPRO HD. Very cool.

The only experience I have is with the HSC1U is a couple of projects but nothing major (Weddings, personal stock footage etc...)

I have dropped it on numerous occasions and no problems. Cards are cheap and I can watch the footage that I shot on a projector and it looks and sounds great.

http://www.spec-comm.com/store/inde...id=143&zenid=5d80650246cd096b1bf401caef956c36

Best regards,

Andrew Hoffman