[MacDV] Re: Panasonic PV-GS70 camcorder

[Ryan Sutter]

Now more than a week into my GS70 with Mac OSX adventure and I have 
nothing but good news to report where video is concerned.  So far it 
works perfectly.  I have transferred some old VHS videos to Mini-DV, 
imported them into FCP (iMovie works great with it as well), edited 
them and exported them and there were no glitches or gotchas.  I have 
shot some footage and the image quality (especially the colors) is 
fabulous.  You can do some really nice things with the manual controls 
they provide as well.  The electronic image stabilization is lousy, but 
I've only seen better image quality on a Canon XL-1 and the

The still image import definitely does not work.  The Mac doesn't 
recognize that there is a camera connected at all.  I would think there 
are two workaround for this.  One, record stills to tape instead of to 
the memory card and then import them using iMovie or FCP and export 
stills from there (kind of a pain) or two, buy a USB SD card reader and 
read the card that way.  Either way, it's not much of a problem in my 
mind.

Panasonic told you it wasn't designed for Mac OSX because they don't 
"officially" support it, they don't provide Mac video editing software 
in the box and the still photo doesn't work directly with Mac.  That 
doesn't mean that you can't use it with your Mac running OSX.  It works 
great.  Provide your own video editor and buy an SD card reader if 
that's important to you and you are golden.

Ryan


On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 07:01  PM, Norm Lamoureux wrote:

> Hi Ryan, Just received e-mail from Panasonic saying
> that this camcorder was not designed for Mac's or OSX.
> Is anyone using one with a Mac running OSX? Thank's
> for the feedback.
>
> Norm L.
>
>
> --- Ryan Sutter <vioman at nucleargopher.com> wrote:
>> Hi Norm,
>>
>> I just got a Panasonic PV-GS70 last night.  My
>> experiences are
>> therefore somewhat limited.  I can tell you,
>> however, that I shot some
>> footage around the house and hooked it up to my
>> TiBook (running Jaguar)
>> and the camera was perfectly compatible with both
>> FCP and iMovie.  I
>> imported the footage and it looked great.  The GS70
>> does support A/D
>> Passthrough and although I haven't tried it yet, I
>> intend to tonight to
>> convert some old videos I have on VHS, I don't
>> anticipate any problems
>> but I will let you know how it works out for me.  I
>> have heard that the
>> only real Mac incompatibility is that the USB access
>> to the memory card
>> for still photos doesn't work with Macs but I don't
>> know if that's true
>> or not yet.  I'll be trying that tonight as well.
>> It's not like I
>> intend to use it as a digital still camera anyhow,
>> but it would be nice
>> to know.
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 08:32  PM, Norm
>> Lamoureux wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all, Has anyone had any experiences, good or
>> bad
>>> with using a Panasonic PV-GS70 camcorder? I am
>> running
>>> OSX on a PowerMac G4 tower with dual 1.42
>> processors.
>>> I like what I have read about this camcorder so
>> far,
>>> but can't find any info on using it with a Mac. I
>> am
>>> waiting for a reply from Panasonic. I need to use
>> the
>>> camcorder for "Analog to Digital pass through",
>> like
>>> the Canon camcorders have. In other words,
>> plugging in
>>> a VCR and sending the video through the camcorder
>> and
>>> onto my hard drive, without having to record onto
>> tape
>>> first. Any info would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank's
>>> Norm L.
>>>
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