PANASONIC's New AVCHD H.264/MPEG-4 HD Camcorders!

[Jerry Jones]

http://tinyurl.com/jyrp7

Panasonic announced this morning they will soon present a new compact camcorder design that will use SD cards, and will record video in HD with the AVCHD codec developed in partnership with Sony. This design seems rather close to what we’ve seen in the past and is closer to become reality. Panasonic announced this product will have a 3CCD sensor, a 4GB SD card (SDHC), and will record up to 85 minutes of 6Mbps video, or 55 minutes of 9Mbps video.

Check out that funky design!

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Hulk]

9Mbps for HD? That sounds like quite a low bitrate for video that is to be edited. I could see that bitrate *possibly* working as a final rendered format when rendered from a high quality HD source using two-pass encoding with a good encoder.

I hope I'm proven wrong.

- Mark

[Dr Mordrid]

Sample JVC AVCHD clips at differing bitrates half-way down;

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20060920/zooma273.htm

Sorry about the Japanese