JVC lets loose its Everio GZ-MC500 camcorder
By Ryan Block 
posted Feb 20th 2005 11:07AM
posted Feb 20th 2005 11:07AM
We hit you up on this tip before, but JVC's officially introduced it's latest Everio hard-drive based camcorder, the GZ-MC500. That would be the "world's smallest" one with three 1/4.5-inch CCDs that records high-quality MPEG-2 video onto CompactFlash microdrives—a 4GB card can store up to an hour of "DVD-quality" video. It also takes "pixel-shifted" (i.e. their name for their fancy interpolation technique, which they claim grabs double the amount of information horizontally and vertically via "prism optics and filterless 3-CCD pixel shift technology") 5-megapixel still shots. We'll see this hit the streets in March for $1,800.
too bad MPEG-2 is next to useless unless you never ever ever want to edit the footage ever and instead just want to dump straight to DVD.
why oh why can't they make the same camera ... but with DV format?
i'm i the only one that thinks MPEG-2 cameras are sort of dumb?
$1800 bones is a lot of money considering for a few hundres more you can get a HD Prosumer camera. It's pretty sweet. I hope the price drops and that the CFII cards start getting with more storage. An extra 4G CFII card will set you back about $180 min. Considering MiniDV tapes are $10.00
Why is it useless? Aren't there programs to edit MPEG-2 video? Like VirtualDubMod?
I wish the photo gave some sense of the size of this thing; it would be interesting to see it side by side with the smallest DV camcorder on the market.
New MPEG-2 editing software is coming out all the time. The latest iMovie supports HD MPEG-2 editing, so hopefully it can also handle SD.
CF cards cost more than DV tapes, but they probably last much longer.
it does support SD Card. The size is slightly bigger than your fist holding a golfball?
I get a little worried when it says JVC on the side.
Man, almost every video editing program has been patched or upgraded to support Mpeg2. It's getting to be a standard, thanks to DVD-R based Camcorders. Not to mention there's plenty of tools to convert it if you really need to, like Virtual Dub.
I wonder what a Kidney is worth? I think I can live just fine with only one. I *MUST* have that Camcorder!
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Trust me, they will come with an identical 3CCD camera on DV format rather than using MPEG2 as used in the EVERIO range, look out for the GR-X5!
"CF cards cost more than DV tapes, but they probably last much longer."
Yeah, that's the point. Beside that, it's very easy to put CF cards to a card reader for copying and editing WITHOUT any software, just Plug&Play. can MiniDV do like this? Surely no if you don't have driver for your Camcorder.
Price is high but for this camera is acceptable.
#1: Isn't the DV format based on MPEG-2?
#9: How do you edit without software? Any good video editing software can capture from any good DV camcorder without problems, and it generally doesn't need a driver unless the maker is stupid.
hi does anyone know if this unit has a built in tripod mount? i know it doesn't have a remote.... my other question is, does it have a/v inputs for recording? any answer would be greatly appreciated. thanks