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Re: Video photography and editing equipment
We picked up a Canon HV20 as a club camera this year (along with a Core 2 Quad based editing station). My personal camera is a Sony HDR-SR1. Both shoot in 1440x1080i video. I much prefer the Sony camera though, the touch screen and 30gb hard drive beat having to deal with MiniDV tapes by a LONG shot. The Sony's build quality is also much higher, it really feels like a high-def camera, very solid construction. The Canon feels cheap, shaking it produces a nice rattle. (Not good in a $1000ish camera.)
The Canon does beat the Sony in terms of editing ease however. We have Premiere CS3 loaded on our station and it does not support AVCHD. In order to use stuff I shot with the Sony, we have to run it through Elecard's AVCHD Studio and convert it to MPEG2, or use Sony Vegas 8.0a (igh).
For DVD + website video creation we use Adobe Encore CS3, which has an awesome output to Flash feature.
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