I produce for nonprofits and am about to purchase a new iMac with Final Cut Pro X, and need to also purchase a video camera. The Sony NX30 or Canon XA10 are in my budget, but my challenge is that I'm not a real technical person, and so need to be able to import the footage easily into FCP-X. ANY advice on which camera would be best? Any advice would be very much appreciated.
Final Cut Pro X
This forum is not really suitable for comparing cameras as few (if any) people will have experience of both.
As the cameras are both AVCHD there should be no difference regarding the "ease of import".
The only thing that should concern you is whether one performs optically better than the other . . . . if neither, then get the cheaper.
Google for camera reviews, but treat with caution those written by customers.
The best reviews are usually by professional testers who subject them to a standardised battery of tests.
Sometimes it's a matter of actually holding the camera to find out where buttons are locatedd and how the thing FEELS/balances to you.
I have big hands and some of the small camera are simply not comfortable and near unusable for me.
Take both for a test drive and go for the one that feels right.
If you have some special need for a camera then let us know.
Al
Sony NX30 or Canon XA10 for Final Cut Pro X?
