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Canon's Vixia HF10: The Best Consumer AVCHD Camcorder
Expensive, but it has everything.
Jerry Jones
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Expensive, but it has everything.
Jerry Jones
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Comprehensive Canon Vixia HF10 review:
It's nice to see that CamcorderInfo.com has finally blessed AVCHD.We shot with the HDV-tape-based Canon HV20 (Review, Specs, Recent News, $903) in one hand and the AVCHD-disc-based HF10 in the other. In most instances, it was hard to tell the difference. The compression artifacting has gotten to the point where it looks no worse than HDV. In certain panning shots, the HV20 still kept the upper hand in regards to sharpness, but on the whole the camcorders are matched. The HF10 has all the same great color performance as the other Canon HD camcorders, and now offers the highest resolution we’ve yet to see in a consumer camcorder. The low light performance tested higher for noise, but to the eye it looked as good, sometimes better than the HV20.
They trashed the format in the beginning, but I knew they'd eventually start singing a different tune.
They're the most arrogant bunch of error-prone reviewers on the Web, in my view.
As much as I admire the young lady who started CamcorderInfo.com, I think their Web site is a disaster and their reviews/articles are riddled with factual errors. Still, they're correct about the great performance of this new Canon Vixia AVCHD model.
Jerry Jones
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Quote from CamcorderInfo.com reviewFinally, let’s not forget that editing AVCHD video is still a frustrating proposition for all but the most powerful computers.
This is an example of a blatantly false statement by a CamcorderInfo.com reviewer.
It's just sad.
Editing AVCHD, in fact, is no more difficult than editing HDV and -- I would argue -- AVCHD is actually *easier.*
First of all, tape requires you to "play" the contents of the cassette as it is captured to the hard disk for editing.
That's more difficult and *vulnerable* to all kinds of issues that can crop up during this delicate Firewire capture process.
Second, if one transcodes HDV or AVCHD to an intermediate HD codec file format such as those made possible by the Apple Intermediate Codec (Macintosh) or the Cineform Intermediate Codec (Windows), then editing is *exactly* the same for both formats.
So the CamcorderInfo.com remark is just baloney unless you're talking native, smart-render capable editing, which no software editing program offers to date anyway.
So that reviewer makes a remark that is utterly ridiculous, senseless, and false.
Jerry Jones
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