A couple of bloggers from San Francisco have been exploring the ways to get maximum impact out of their HG10 footage.

Personal Trainer has been really pleased with the high quality images from his HG10, bought to record training videos to sell on the net. However, he is beginning to realise that his lack of expertise may limit him when it comes to editing HD footage. Basically, he wants to ‘take the videos, crop them, create a new soundtrack and also take some stills from the videos to use as pictures’, and has asked for any good advice about doing this using a dual core processor PC and Adobe Premiere Pro – let him know if you’ve used this set-up to create a great film.

He might find it useful to post a few comments or questions on the Studio MSV blog, where artisan wedding video producer Andrew Hsu bought an HG10 to take on his trip to Reno. Andrew had some initial issues with manipulating the .mts files – he has Edius Pro 4.5 on his PC, which handles the footage fine, but on his laptop he has to convert to Canopus HQ HDV .AVI files for editing. However, it looks like his perseveracne has paid off, as he captured some beautiful vacation video with the HG10.