Sanyo VPC-HD1000 Digital Camera & FCP

I am interested in a good camcorder which is disc based to work with FCP. Can anyone tell me if this will work please?
The Sanyo HD1000 records video in Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) and also takes 4-megapixel digital still images. The Sanyo HD1000 utilizes the advanced MPEG-4 AVC/H.246 video format and features a 10x optical HD lens and a large 2.7-inch widescreen display. The new SANYO Xacti HD1000 weighs only 268g and has a total volume of only 272 cubic centimetres. It incorporates advanced MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video compression, enabling up to approximately 85 minutes of Full HD (1920 x 1080) video recording or over five hours of TV-quality (640 x 480) video recording onto an 8GB SDHC Memory Card (memory card sold separately).

FCP doesn't support the format that the camera shoots don't think. There is a way you could transcode the video most likely, but I'd look in another direction to avoid this because it's time consuming and most likely will hurt the picture quality.
And FWIW, any MPEG recording device isn't the best with render times, conforming times etc.. If you've the budget for a capture card things change a bit... but then, you might have bought a camera whose format is supported instead. One of the things that makes supported disk based recording nice is the fact you don't have to transcode the files... and they import faster than real time. But that camera's video will not work directly with FCP.
How much can you spend? What sort of video work do you do? If you want to do a lot of compositing (effects work), I'd look at an HVX-200, but that camera would cost more than a consumer rig... however it's picture quality will blow away any consumer camera.
If it were me, and on a budget, I'd look at a 3 chip or CMOS chipped HDV camera rather than what you're looking at... with this format, you could work natively with the video, or get an inexpensive card to transcode it to a friendlier post format... like ProRes...
Jerry

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+My experience in using the Apple video software is that there are no problems as long as I don't try the full HD quality.+
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+When I try to import full HD video's using *iMovie 7*, iMovie crashes, so I presume iMovie & Full HD aren't compatible.+
+Then I tried *iMovieHD 6*, while is seemed that this earlier version does handle the full HD - format, the importing succeeded but ... once again trying to view the files doesn't work, as the generated miniatures look like, also the screen only shows a full green screen with sound !!+
+So I presume iMovieHD 6 & Full HD aren't compatible.+
+The only thing that is left is trying to use *Final Cut Pro*, which I still have to buy.+
+As full HD is represented as the standard for optimal quality, practical use seems upto now to be quite complicated and simply not working although a lot of features claim to do.+
+Do you think Final Cut Pro will handle with FULL HD, or what else can be the reason the incompatibility of Full HD with Apple software.+

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Accessorizing - Camorders have common threads (43mm, 72mm, etc) where you can screw in various filters or conversion/wide angle lens.
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Digital camera's video feature has improved considerably. If you simply compare the video on the codec level many of today's digi-cams have better quality than aging DV format. But that is only part of the story.
TV vs Computer - If you shoot video for TV playback on mind, DV would probably yield better result because it is designed for TV and not computer displays, which is why they look bad on computers than on TV. Two have very different color and gamma characteristics. Conversely, to make digicam videos good on TV proper color correction should be done, or they tend to look too contrasty and harsh.
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Zoom - Most DV cams at least have 10x optical zoom, while digital cameras olny have 3~5x optical zoom.
Audio - From built in microphone's quality to audio recording format, DV's audio is superior to digicam's mono low quality audio.
Accessorizing - Camorders have common threads (43mm, 72mm, etc) where you can screw in various filters or conversion/wide angle lens.
Portability and quick snap-ablity - pocket digital cams truly shine for this and maybe it's all needed. With your camera in the pocket you will have much better chance of capturing the moment of your baby's first step. Just make sure you have large memory card in it.
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