Sony HDR SR1 Camcorder

[Tom Freeman]

Im considering buying the Sony HDR SR1 camcorder to use with my video toaster 2.o system. (hope to upgrade to 4 or 5 down the road). I have some concerns with editing the raw video format AVCHD *.m2ts. Does anyone know if the Toaster system will supprt m2ts formats. Is anyone else using this camcorder with their toaster system and if so please post your pro's and cons.

I'm also leaning towards a lower priced 3CCD panasonic model but cant make up my mind as of yet. Feel free to push me in the right direction.

[Jim_C]

VT2 will not by a long shot.

VT5 with SE included(or SE by itself) should.

That cam actually records to an H.264 mpeg4 correct?

[Dan Hong]

We've been using the Sony Z1U for almost a year now. The m2t files will not directly import into VT. The VT4 will read the files if you rename them .mpg, but it's not totally advisable. I'd assume that you built your machine to the specs available at the time of VT2, high def will really chew that machine up. Even on a new machine, high def is pretty demanding. The easy solution is to use SpeedEdit to edit your projects as it supports m2t files natively.

[billmi]

The VT4 will read the files if you rename them .mpg, but it's not totally advisable.

That will work, if you have installed VT[4] compatible MPEG codecs on your machine - they aren't included with VT[4].

[Tom Freeman]

VT2 will not by a long shot.

VT5 with SE included(or SE by itself) should.

That cam actually records to an H.264 mpeg4 correct?

here are its Video formats:

Video Recording System: AVCHD (HD) and MPEG2-PS (SD)

Video Signal System: NTSC color, EIA standards

Analog-to-Digital Converter: N/A

Format(s) Supported: AVCHD (HD), MPEG2-PS (SD) and JPEG

[Tom Freeman]

We've been using the Sony Z1U for almost a year now. The m2t files will not directly import into VT. The VT4 will read the files if you rename them .mpg, but it's not totally advisable. I'd assume that you built your machine to the specs available at the time of VT2, high def will really chew that machine up. Even on a new machine, high def is pretty demanding. The easy solution is to use SpeedEdit to edit your projects as it supports m2t files natively.

I'm currently in the process of moving my VT2 hardware off a dual zeon 1.8Ghz system. And setting the V2 on a AMD M2 4800+ dual core based system with 4 72GB WD Raptor Sata drives for my editing drives inplace of my 4 18GB U320 15K hard drives.

Up front I dont really need the 1080i video format but it would be nice to make one purchase now that has that feature. I'm still open to suggestions on the 3CCD camcorders but I like the idea I having a hard drive in place of tapes for recording.

[Tom Freeman]

We've been using the Sony Z1U for almost a year now. The m2t files will not directly import into VT. The VT4 will read the files if you rename them .mpg, but it's not totally advisable. I'd assume that you built your machine to the specs available at the time of VT2, high def will really chew that machine up. Even on a new machine, high def is pretty demanding. The easy solution is to use SpeedEdit to edit your projects as it supports m2t files natively.

Speededit is available with Vt4 + 5 correct?

[Jim_C]

Speed Edit is about to be release so it will be available as a stand alone app first, then when VT5 is released down the road Speed Edit will replace VT-Edit within it as the editing app.

But if you were to upgrade to VT4 right now it would have a much, MUCH updated version of the VT-Edit you are using now.

So VT4 = no Speed Edit, VT5 = Yes.

However, I 'think' a VT4 purchase now gets you a free software upgrade to VT5 when released but check with your dealer or Newtek on that one.

Sorry if I was misinformed about the mpeg-4 capture I just remember reading in this review awhile back...
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Sony-HDR-SR1-First-Impressions-Camcorder-Review.htm
but now I see it says 'a derivative of MPEG-4'.

Jim

[Blaine Holm]

here are its Video formats:

Video Recording System: AVCHD (HD) and MPEG2-PS (SD)

Video Signal System: NTSC color, EIA standards

Analog-to-Digital Converter: N/A

Format(s) Supported: AVCHD (HD), MPEG2-PS (SD) and JPEG

I don't think the AVCHD is supported in SpeedEDIT 1.0 (it's a very new format).