HVX201 vs HPX171 vs HMC151 ???

[Barry_Green]

Here's the missing point -- these cameras are now recording data files. FCP prevents you from using those data files as recorded. It instead demands that you convert your files to a different data file. For no valid, logistical, comprehensible reason... just because they refuse to comply with every camcorder manufacturer on earth (except JVC, who has recently decided to do it "Apple's way".) Apple forces this workflow upon you because they want to see Quicktime adopted as the one and only file format for media usage.

So if you're in the field for three weeks, shooting hundreds of gigabytes of footage and transferring those DATA FILES onto a hard disk, you could plug that hard disk into any editor in common use and edit the data files immediately. Except, of course, for FCP.

Apple prevents you from doing so. It instead demands that you perform a "log & transfer" step to (unnecessarily, and to no benefit to the user) convert those files to Quicktime files. Whether the underlying video footage is converted to another codec or not is a secondary issue.

 

[new_dvx_user]

Thanks a lot for replying! I'm still in favour of the HMC151, but I'll try to contact some FCP and HMC users to hear their opinion on the post matter. I want to have a clear picture before buying the HMC. Again, thanks!