Re: Is the AC130 a good camera to learn on?

Upgrade to CS6 and use Prelude. You can ingest, log meta data, transcode, etc. We've just started using it and so far it seems to work really well. We have the 160 (big brother to the 130) and I am not currently transcoding. Yes the AVCHD codec is processor intensive, but for now we edit natively. We are also not doing much compositing and such. I have tested transcoding to ProRes and do find it much smoother to move around the timeline, etc. Still natively works for us with our current projects. I'm always trying to eliminate extra steps unless I get large enough gains. My 2 cents worth anyway.