JVC GY-HM100 semi-pro camcorder Test Footage - OtterMedia

A little indoors under flourescents, some at a high school softball championship game (St. Bernard's vs. Ferndale, Calif.), some morning shade and sunlight reflections on the Trinity River, cat and dogs (my Jaxs is bright and will be good for Knee setting tweaking), campfire at a friends, and a backyard rose -- some handheld, some with a decent Manfrotto 701HDV head on a tripod (getting a Libec H38 soon).
Almost all was shot on Full Auto, and just the built-in mic (short shotgun on it now).
Factory 1080i settings for the first 1/3 or so, then almost all Cinema/Vivid 1080i 35Mbps , with a little Knee settings playing around. I think I used the full 18db video gain with the campfire on manual.
Video was uploaded in Final Cut Express 4's Quicktime Export for Apple TV settings. I may post a touch of raw 1080i camera .mov file somewhere soon.

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[thecygnet]

Hello, I have purchased this camera and am very happy with the quality when playing back through an HDTV.

I now want to edit footage but iMovie does not take HD files so the guy at my local Apple reseller is telling me I must use Final Cut Pro, but your description seems to suggest that Final Cut Express would work too.

Please can you confirm that Final Cut Express 4 imports the HD files in .MOV format or which format/settings you used to be able to edit in FCE?

[shaunotter]

@thecygnet

Final Cut Express is exactly what I used to edit this video -- you just might need a certain CODEC or QuickTime addition ... I forget what becasue that was a while ago and I no longer have the HM100. Just my Canon 7D SLR now. Bot doing any video right now,

[NordicRick]

how much is this camera?And after using it would you recommend another one instead?

[shaunotter]

I think it is still around $3,500 US ... I mainly found the limited zoom (only 10x with no really wide angle), poor optical stabilization, and weak/jumpy zoom control to be too limiting and annoying. Other than that it was an awesome camera. I think Canon's successor to the XH-A1s is coming soon with less compression and memory card recording -- sounds like a good option. Same with Sony Z and EX series. Maybe a new version of the HM100 might fix/enhance things some day?? Or a HM200??

[johnkarliss1]

Did you ever use a Polarization filter in any of these clips?

[shaunotter]

NO, just a UV.

[riverdevan]

I would prefer the canon t2i, it is less money and looks even better

[FinalCutKing]

hope you enjoy my friend request and channel

[blackninja9458]

Hello, I also have this camera and just recently for my birthday I got a wide angled lens, Digital Optics Digital High definition Definition 0.43X Super Wide Angle Lens With Marco Japan Optics, and for some reason it won't fit, my dad did a bunch of research and made sure that it would work, do you have any idea why it won't fit, if you could answer this that would be really great.

[ATRFLUID]

3:51... that looks amazing....

[robblac]

480..why ?

[lumpyren]

Wow is the OIS on that camera really that bad? or did you have it turned off. My old canon GL2 is far better at OIS than that camera....

I was hoping JVC finally fixed their horrible OIS, but this video makes it look like it's not working at all...