JVC's GY-HM100 / GY-HM700 ProHD camcorders capture QuickTime straight to SDHC

by Darren Murph posted Jan 8th 2009 at 4:48PM

Before buying either the JVC GY-HM100 / GY-HM700, you better be darn well married to Apple's Final Cut Pro. Said ProHD camcorders are the industry's first in the solid state line to store files in native QuickTime format onto SDHC cards. Apple's pushing the fact that users don't have to transcode or re-wrap prior to editing, and considering that each one cam can hold twin SDHC cards, you'll be able to capture a maximum of 64GB before needing to reload. And just think, this time next year the successor will hit with dual SDXC support, giving buyers a maximum capacity of 4TB. Decisions, decisions.

Filed under: Other hardware, JVC

Tags: camcorder, final cut pro, FinalCutPro, GY-HM100, GY-HM700, JVC, ProHD, quicktime, SSD, SSD camcorder, SsdCamcorder

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Mark Garrett @ Jan 8th 2009 5:38PM

If you read the JVC page, it can also record standard MPEG-2 Long GOP. Looks like they created their own proprietary codec for use in the QT wrapper.

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Brian Kaempen @ Jan 8th 2009 10:08PM

Another real question is did JVC develop this camera alone or have they worked with Apple? Sony and Apple have a great working relationship, at least when it comes to digital video, but did JVC contact Apple and make sure that Long and Transfer will work flawlessly with these Quicktime files?

-Brian

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mcr @ Jan 9th 2009 12:09AM

Quicktime sucks. I have a Canon 5d Mk 2 and a Mac and editing the video the 5dmk2 spits out is like pulling teeth. Somebody at Apple or Canon needs to fix the colorspace issues so one needn't jump through flaming hoops and intermediate codecs to simply get the proper video into your timeline of choice. Even if you edit with Final Cut Pro, the colorspace is screwed up. It's screwed up on Windows too. Seriously, screw Quicktime. It's a steaming bag of hurt.

Hopefully JVC figures out how to work around the limitations.

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