Legria HFS10 video camera + FCP 7

I am relatively new to FCP and have a Canon XHA1 camera which I have been using sucesfully with my projects. I am however looking for a smaller second camera which is easier to travel with. I'm considering Canon's Legria HFS10 and it seems ok from the specs I can understand in terms of working well with FCP 7. Should I be concerened that it only seems to connect with USB2 which I would have thought was a bit slow? Any advice on the suitability is appreciated. Thank you. Graeme.

Canon's Legria HFS10 and it seems ok from the specs I can understand in terms of working well with FCP 7.
Your current camera shoots HDV on tape and and with SDI can output 4:2:2 whereas the HFS10 is AVCHD, captures on flash memory and outputs 4:2:0. There are other quality differences as well.
Should I be concerened that it only seems to connect with USB2 which I would have thought was a bit slow?
The AVCHD cam will connect that way, but, assuming you want this camera, you may want to consider that same model without the built in hard drive (save some money) and just use SD Cards and put them into a card reader. You don't log and capture with AVCHD you log and transfer. A big consideration is the amount of space to store what you've captured. You will need to transcode the AVCHD to ProRes to edit in FCP since it won't edit the h.264 natively.

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