Re: DSLR + HD VIDEO - which one to choose?

The Canons are using H.264 in a Quicktime wrapper at around 38Mb/s for the 5D and more for the 7D, while the Panasonic GH1 is AVCHD at 17Mb/s if I'm not mistaken.

I've been playing around with some 5D mkII footage a friend shot this week, and it isn't terribly hard to deal with (I'm on a PC with Premiere CS3... I can just drop it in the timeline and, while it does have to render, it's not a hassle at all). On the FCP side of things, I haven't tried it yet but I'll probably mess with that in a few days... I think you CAN just drop it in and edit but most recommend transcoding to Prores first.

On the other hand, I've had HUGE headaches with AVCHD in the past, and had to spend hours transcoding it to even get it into an editing system. I think things have improved on that end but it's still a much more compressed codec so something has to give.