Topic: JVC Everio - Hard Disk Camcorder

[davepeck]

anyone have any experience with these? seems promising, but i'm not sure i want to jump on the 1st gen...

[guitard]

I've seen video shot with this cam and it looks very nice.

Like most things in life, before determining if it suits your needs, you need to ask is, "What are you going to use it for?"

If you want to do use it as part of a multi-cam DVD project, it won't work very well at all.  It shoots mpeg2 video - so what you have on the harddrive is not raw video that easy to work with in an NLE (non-linear editor - like Vegas Video) - it already encoded.

So if you only need single cam footage that won't require any significant editing - it'll work out great. 

[caymanreview]

ive been eyeing these for a couple weeks. seems to cheap to be true

[fsulloway]

My friend Charles has one of these, not sure what model. He's had trouble with it though. It would usually shut down when we tried mounting it onstage(vibration?) As mentioned earlier the files(.MOD) were not immediately compatible with the ones from the mini dv cams we were using. I think you have to use JVC's software to get the footage off the cam. Also there is no audio input.

[kuuan]

If you want to edit your footage I'd recommend SD ( standard definition ) cams.
Cams that record to harddisc and the HDV cams record in mpeg2 which is difficult to edit, however it can be edited but you need a top PC ( min 3,6 GHZ or equivalent, min 1GB, better 2 GB Ram )