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Over at Apple Discussions forum, Randy Kent is having a slight issue when converting footage from AVCHD to QT. He explains “they go through the process and a stop sign with an exclamation point inside it comes up next to the queued clip and on top it says the clip is “idle”. Then nothing happens [...]

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Has anyone out there had ghosting issues with their HG10? There’s an interesting conversation over at DV Info forums, which started off with Dan Lewandowski wondering whether to snap up an HG10 (he’s found one for a tasty $625), or hold out for an SR11 at twice the price. One of his main concerns is [...]

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Canon Camera Buzz fan Norbert is new to HD and the HG10 and has asked us: The answer is yup – and there’s a gadget out in April which is just the ticket. The Canon DW-100, premiered at CES last month, is a portable DVD burner which allows you to burn AVCHD as well as [...]

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TGDaily have been giving the HG10 a good work out and you can see the results over at their website- in short, Humphrey Cheung loved it when he took it to the Hot Import Nights show in San Mateo. Humphrey explains what goes on at Hot Import Nights (basically fast cars racing and models pouting) [...]

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Eugenia Loli-Queru, well-known computer specialist and pioneering tech blogger, is also a keen videographer, and she’s written an article comparing the three big Canon HD cameras released through the past year: the HV20 (which Eugenia herself uses), our favourite the HG10, and the new HF10. Her comments are based on the tests done by Austin [...]

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Imaginary award of the week goes to AV Forums for being a hotbed of advice to HG10 users. Jonathancarty has found that, when trying to playback downloaded footage through WMP, the quality is not as good as direct cam to TV. Our HG1O trialist Senu suggests converting to “WMV-HD which is very good quality with [...]

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Further to last week’s debate on AVCHD, if you’re considering purchasing the HG10, you would do well to familiarise yourself with the Advance Video Codec High Definition format (or AVCHD for short). As you will already know, the HG10 stores footage on an internal hard drive rather than using tapes, and AVCHD is the new [...]

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The camera world sure does love it’s acronyms. With several formats competing to be the future standard of video recording, it can be difficult to know exactly where to invest your money. To summarise for camera virgins out there, your main options are MiniDV (standard semi-professional tape format) using HDV (an inexpensive high def format [...]

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In your opinion, which AVCHD camera has the edge over the competition? Michiael Iper’s looking for a new model and he’s asked members of DV Info Forums for a ‘quick summary for a newbie’ on the relative advantages of the Canon HG10 compared to the HV20 or the Sony SR-7. Chris Hurd’s reply is a [...]

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