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I've had this camera for a few weeks now and have filmed over 10 hours without any dilemma. I film a lot of kid's sports (football, sailing, etc.) and the portray quality is estimable. I went with the Panasonic over the Sony because of the 18x optical zoom and I fair don't mediate that the Sony name is not what it ancient to be. The last two Sony products I've bought had problems (computer is a allotment of junk and the camcorder's viewfinder stopped working after a year) .
If you are going to purchase a DVD camcorder, I would recommend using a DVD drive to transfer video to your computer. It's simple and expeditiously. I bought a LG burner and it works tremendous. Editing software programs are a different sage but this is a pickle with and digital camcorder you seize.
Panasonic's technical abet is definately not the greatest but neither is Sony. In conclusion, I'm very delighted with this camera and cherish the DVD idea. I gave the camera 4 stars because of the lack of wait on from Panasonic and the included software is useless and the instructions are unclear. The software that came with the DVD burner is better but not perfect. At least I could edit and get a video with music.
As far as DVD players, even if you select a Sony, not all players assist DVD rw, so you have to do your homework no matter what you hold.
Great plan but in practice this camera doesn't live up to expectations. The DVA-RAM re-recordable media is fairly esoteric, expensive and not compatible with most DVD readers. The other recoding media; DVD-R, has a hitch - after you portray your 30 minutes of video, the disc needs to be "finalized" before it can be replayed in a DVD player. This takes at least 7minutes. You can't consume the camera during this time and it must be plugged into its AC adapter. If "finalization" fails, you've lost all of your video on that DVD and it can't be recovered. Unprejudiced happened to me so I view I'd portion the experience with others. At note, miniDV tape seems like a safer and more valid option. This particular camera would only be useful to people who already bear a procedure that can read 8cm DVD-RAM discs and copy them to other media.
I bought this as a gift to my husband before he was deployed to iraq so that we could bewitch dvd's of the children for him to recognize. The manual is useless. It is very vague and difficult to follow in most areas. Using the camcorder was easy but when we went to utilize it with the PC we had all kinds of distress. The usb cable is really nonfunctional. Panasonic reccomends that you abet up your discs to pc...we couldnt even find the hardware to work honest on our pc (the tower is impress unique) and after calling tech help for benefit..well..he gave up too and we lost all of the video in the process. (so my husband went to Iraq with unbiased pictures and a major let down.) Then we couldnt uninstall the hardware that was installed improperly and tech encourage could not assist. I am so disappointed with this product that I am returning it to the store where i bought it and trying a different impress.
In short..if your not mechanically/or computer inclined this product will be difficult to utilize and the directions even harder to follow. And dont dvd picture anything you want to maintain on this product. It has a pickle with erasing or locking you out so you cant secure to the images and those precious moments are lost.....
