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  • May 21, 2012

Canon XF300 Professional Camcorder Review

The Canon XF300 (and XF305) are Canon’s latest professional HD camcorders and both feature native 1920 x 1080 recording.

With these cameras, Canon has also made the leap to tapeless professional video cameras as they now utilize compact flash.   I think this is a big plus as I no longer have to buy one of their expensive digital add-ons for when I wanted to record straight to digital.

These cameras are suitable for documentary and field work and have all the inputs you’d expect to see on a camera of this level.
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Panasonic AG-AF100 Micro 4/3″ Professional HD Video Camera

Ever since the details were announced on the Panasonic AG-AF100 Micro 4/3″ Professional HD Video Camera, independent filmmakers have been abuzz.

HD Recording On A Budget

While high end professional cameras can provide great looking footage, not everybody can afford to drop $7,000 (or more) on this kind of camera and depending on what you plan on using your footage for, it’s not always necessary to have that kind of equipment.

In this post I’ll go over some of your better options if you’re on a tight budget but still want to shoot high quality HD video footage.

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Best Laptop For Professional Video Editing

Macbook Pro i7 - Best Video Editing Laptop

Best Laptop For Video Editing (Even HD Video)

A decade ago, the term “video editing laptop” was an oxymoron. Laptops were barely powerful enough to run programs like Powerpoint, but things have changed and current generation laptops can handle resource intense raw HD video footage like a champ… just understand the render times will be a little longer than on a dedicated desktop machine.

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