Re: Looking for Review or Owner Comments on JVC GZ-MG155

On Mar 16, 10:39 am, "Martin" <funkychateauS...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm considering this camcorder for a specific application, and have
been trying to find an online review. So far, all I have run across
is just "intro" marketing material, no actual road test.

My application is fairly specific - I'll be videotaping pocket-
billiard matches and supplying the footage on DVD to the
participants. Camera is mounted on a tripod to view the table from
about a 30-degree lookdown angle, and I use an external battery
pack.

I currently use a mini-DV camcorder for this purpose, but the matches
sometimes run longer than the tape. Plus, I'm stuck with real-time
capture from tape, and then Nero (or TMPGenc) has to re-render the
captured video to MPEG-2 before I can burn the DVD. On my computer,
this also appears to consume approximately 1X time. So I'm stuck with
a minimum of about 2X realtime at the computer before I can burn the
DVD.

In going to a HDD camcorder, I hope to speed up the data transfer and,
since the video is already in MPEG-2 format, completely bypass the re-
rendering (transcoding?) process.

My questions are:

1. How bad is the JVC Everio's video quality, compared to the average
$500 mini-DV camcorder?

2. Can the MPEG-2 video from the Everio be used by Nero without
transcoding, ie can I just pull the file into Nero, set up menus and
titles, and burn the DVD?

best regards,

Martin

Is this thing really so new that no one's tried it yet?

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