It's there but yeah I panned slightly higher...

What do you think about the process of exporting into a format you can upload to vimeo vs the HV30?

Very similar except for much faster uploading to PC (since it's a SDHC card) and second more CPU power required to decode.

All of these are 60i. This particular scene I also did in 30p to compare to see if there's less blurring (but I haven't posted this yet).

NICE, very smooth! I should try that (I just created a custom virtual dub filter to remove CA but only thing missing is a proper desaturation method).

I still some slight motion blur (or is it focus?) but the movement is really fluid! I have to try that with the HF100 clips as well.

Thanks, yes it does blur just a little but sharpen filter could be added after the other filters to counter the blur. The rest of the motion blur could be due to the part of your LCD screen refresh rate. You can pause the video at the time of the blur to see that the video itself is not so blury. The video itself is 59 FPS not 50 as I initialy had thought.

So what did you finally wind up doing? I'm considering getting the HF100 but I want to make it as easy as possible to upload videos shot on the camera.

I'm on a mac too.

See this video for CA removal illustration using Sony Vegas Pro: vimeo.com/905817

29.97 is the NTSC standard framerate (in the US). In Europe it's 25 frames per second.

Should work now.

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntsc for more info why it's 29.97.

No an airplane it seems and some other noises in the neighborhood:-).

I've posted tons of other HF100 video's and you notice it's dead silent except for some slightly zoom noises. Here's 1 example: vimeo.com/946990

The first half of this video you can hear the HV20 tape mechanism pretty well. Pretty much the reason I bought the HF100. The HV20 is noisy and even with the external mic I use it's not perfect since the noise is picked up even from 4-5 feet away.

The HF100 screen is much brighter/better than the HV20. I didn't need the VF yet even in bright conditions but that's definitely also personal preference and your mileage may vary.

The HV30 is supposed to be slightly better isolated but also with slightly lower audio level (to mask the tape noise I guess but haven't tested this myself to confirm if true). Still the HF10/HF100 audio should be better.

You have to convert it first unfortunately (to HDV or other) for Premiere Pro. Couple of options (none perfect):

1. Get (expensive) plug-in:
blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2007/11/avc_hd_on_premiere_pro.html

2. Convert first to HDV (several programs can convert AVCHD to HDV)

However most likely we'll see an update for Premiere Pro which would support AVCHD natively.