UPDATE:
Panasonic HDC-SD9: The Trouble with Mac OS X
Another video, with audio intact. Imported using Final Cut Pro 6.0.2.
Panasonic HDC-SD9 video sample:
- Recording Mode: HA1920
- 24p Digital Cinema mode
- Imported using Final Cut Pro 6.0.2
- H.264 @ 1920 x 1080
- 10.80 mbits/s
- 27 seconds
- 35.4 MB
- Done on 15-inch MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.0GHz, Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2
Final Cut Pro is having trouble playing/importing when the video is recorded with “24p Digital Cinema” mode turned off.
UPDATE:
For some reasons, Final Cut Pro imported the video and speed it up a little bit. The original video runs about 40 seconds, while the imported video runs about 28 seconds. It is clear that Final Cut Pro does not fully understand the recording mode from this camera.
WARNING! THIS MOVIE FILE MIGHT NOT PLAY IN YOUR BROWSER DUE TO ITS RESOLUTIONS.
Right-click, then save as. Because it is going to take a long time to buffer.
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I love cats (have 3)but…i think a shot just looking down the street with out a lot of shake would be more informative re sharpness etc. Wold like to comare it to our HVX-200. Do appreciate the video just the same….thanks
Cool. So the Panasonic HDC-SD9 works with Final cut Pro.
The video of the guitar wasn’t in 1920×1080, more like 1200×720, so don’t bother downloading that one.
The video of the cat was indeed full HD 1920×1080, and filled up my 1920×1200 monitor nicely, but the framerate was dodgy, not fluid at all.
While I do love HD pussies, the auto-focus(?) was acting up a fair bit, and the colours came across a bit bleak and smokey in your example video.
With all that said, I still think this is a great camcorder, probably the cheapest AND lightest 1920×1080 progressive-scan there is.
I was referring to the recording mode. The video then was exported to 960×540.
This was posted back in March 2008, and at that time there was incompatibilities between this camera and QuickTime importer.