Cameras other then MINI DV
by Chris Burgess
on
Sep 23, 2009 at 2:02:13 pm
Hi Guys,
I work for a college in Buckinghamshire that provides a Television/Film course, we are thinking of upgrading are Canon MD205 cameras to solid state i.e SD cards.
We edit on Adobe premiere Pro here at the college and some of the staff have expressed there concerns that cameras that use SD Cards will not work with Adobe Premeire Pro CS3.
I was wondering if some one could tell me of a camera that dosn't use Mini DV Tapes but uses SD Cards that will work with Adobe Premeire Pro CS3.
We just want to be able to record on an SD card, then plug the camera into the computer then either capture or import the footage right into Adobe Premiere CS3.
The solid state unit records to either AVI or RAW DV. Record
to it in either DV, DVCAM or HDV mode. When attached to a PC
it behaves as a harddrive and you simply drag the AVIs over.
You can record to tape (as a back up) whilst recording to
to solid state simultaneously.
S270E/Z7 range also accepts cheap non-Sony memory cards.
We've been using the shoulder mounted S270E and Z7E for a while --
sports, broadcast, educational etc. -- and...they've never let
us down -- and they are the perfect option for you really --
but given our choice again, I would have saved our (low-end)
budget for a little while longer.
I won't bother listing my quibbles, but several options are:
JVC GY range: medium priced cameras -- we used these (and
the Z7s) for an entire season of super league rugby. Older
models only recorded a SD or 720p HDV image to small miniDV/HDV
tapes, newer models support a harddrive which fits on the
back. They're funny to look at when fully kitted up -- they
look like bazookas -- but saying that, they use CCD chips as
opposed to the Z7s' CMOS, and frankly, I still prefer CCD
regardless of Sony's dabbling with CMOS technology. The
harddrive records to XDCAM format supported by Prem CS.
http://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/features.jsp?model_id=MDL101824
