Panasonic or JVC for onboard editing?

Callum4 · 13-10-2009, 1:28 PM

[FONT=Times New Roman]Help please! At the mo I have a 10yr old PanasonicNV-MX300B camcorder (which uses tapes) and I mainly film family and holidays, some of which include wildlife. Looking to buy new hard drive HD. I like the Panasonic HS25 and the cheaper JVC GZ-HD300BEK. Understand that the Panasonic has a limited editing facility, i.e. cut, move and paste on the HD without having to download to my computer to edit; does anyone know if the JVC can do the same? Apart from the difference in price and JVCs longer battery life they seem similar. Is anyone familiar with both these camcorders and can anyone advise me which is the better buy?[/FONT]

**senu** · 13-10-2009, 7:18 PM

Neither will match your MX300 for quality
Edting on the HDD is not a great advantage IMHO given it is destructive

Callum4 · 13-10-2009, 9:58 PM

Thanks for comments Senu. What would match my current MX300, I need something smaller and lighter? Dont understand the onboard editing reply - what do you mean by destructive?

*A n d r e w* · 13-10-2009, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Callum4

what do you mean by destructive?

It's not undo-able.

ronaldkwok · 13-10-2009, 10:30 PM

My experience with onboard editing in the HD2000 is that you have a choice of saving the edited video overwriting the original file or saving it as new thus preserving the original file. Not sure about the other camcorders but I think this should be a common practice.

**senu** · 13-10-2009, 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronaldkwok

My experience with onboard editing in the HD2000 is that you have a choice of saving the edited video overwriting the original file or saving it as new thus preserving the original file. Not sure about the other camcorders but I think this should be a common practice.

It isnt

chrishull3 · 14-10-2009, 7:57 AM

nv-dx100 - Google Images
Years ago when i bought my dx100 it was great, your mx300 may have been an improvement but any resonable hd cam will vastly outperform your mx 300, the jvc hd 320 is more expensive than the 300 and the pana hs 25 will also have better pq than the dv cam but whether the build quality is as good is another story.personaly i would never on cam edit.