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1. jburkhart
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    Panasonic has given Videomaker the scoop on the HMC-150, and we thought it would be selfish to keep it to ourselves. So we're going to be doing a live review of the first HMC-150 in the USA on Tuesday August 19th, at 11am pacific / 2pm eastern.

   We're taking it out for a test drive this week, and will report our impressions live at http://www.videomaker.com/live.

   There will be footage from the HMC-150 to download, and the chat room will be active, so if you have a question about the HMC-150's functions or features,  join the live show and we'll try to answer it for you right there.

   Hope to see you at the show,

   John Burkhart
   Editor-in-Chief
   Videomaker Magazine

   P.S. If you can't make the live show, the review will be looping on our channel afterwords at: videomaker.com/live

   John Burkhart
   Editor-in-Chief
   Videomaker

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2. lunatico
   Member

   

   New here in these forums and playing catchup-I just watched the show for the AG-HMC150.

   So I downloaded the sample footage then logged and transfered into FCP.  And I found out a couple of interesting things. First, FCP defaults to ProRes 422 for the AVCHD transcoding, and second, the max bitrate is 17.4 MB/sec.  Now in the show, it's stated the camera goes up to 24 MB/sec., but averages 21 MB/sec. for PH mode (highest available on camera).  If the camera avergaes 21 MB/sec., why are we stuck with ProRes 422, why can't we use ProRes 422 HQ? We cannot change this in FCP's log and transfer window. Was the sample footage recorded at 17.4 MB/sec? I would hope that ProRes HQ would be an option to gain those few more precious MB/sec., but it looks like without an option to choose , FCP throws out 3.6 MB/sec. of data (at least) when transcoding the AVCHD files.  Does anyone know otherwise?  Is there something(s) I missed?

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