I believe the reason the article about JVC GR-HD1 stated that current video editing software is unable to handle the HD recording format was built on a misconception. I think they meant that current software can’t capture the MPEG-2 stream from the camera over IEEE 1394 (branded FireWire by Apple). Once you got the MPEG-2 data transfered there is no problem to edit it with a modern resolution independent editing suite such as Fina Cut Pro.
The problem thus lies into getting the data to the computer from the camera device. But I don’t think there going to be any problem for anyone to put togehter a driver for it. IEEE 1394 is just a transport layer (not intended for DV at all in the first place) just like Ethernet and IP (as in TCP/IP). And MPEG-2 is a widely spread standard you can’t avoid it: all TV broadcast is delivered with it, DVDs is encoded in it….
It just amazed me that no one linked to the official press release in the reporting of the Las Vegas rollout of the camera. Anyway here is the JVC GR-HD1 press release.
Update: Some more related links: Lorin’s JVC Camcoreder Page and Is DV Dead?.
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