[MacDV] Re: Panasonic PV-GS70 camcorder

[Norm Lamoureux]

Thank's again for your input. I'm looking for best
deal. I'll let you know how I make out.

Norm L.

--- Ryan Sutter <vioman at nucleargopher.com> wrote:
> 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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