Is the picture quality on SD card camcorders any good?

Question

Is the picture quality on SD card camcorders any good?

Answer 1

It depends on the camcorder and the format you are capturing. DV should be OK - though it would be a highly compressed MPG2 - and not best available video quality. For high definition, personally, I would not bother with AVCHD - it's current implementation from the camcorder manufacturers is not so good and not all video editors can handle the different AVCHD implementations from the different camcorder manufacturers.

If you want best video quality, that title is still with miniDV tape based camcorders.

DVD based camcorders are the worst and should be taken off the market.

Flash memory and hard drive based camcorders are about the same video quality - better than DVD based camcorders, but not as good as miniDV tape based camcorders.