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you should remove this video you placed here.
It's Really, really BAD!
let me say this once more... REALLY BAD!

A $100 camera can do better video then this $5,000 plus camera.
If you want to put a quality video online use: vimeo.com and in HD format.

I've only been using FCP for a few weeks. If I export a video from FCP using Quick Time Conversion, what are the best MP4 settings in order to get the highest quality video?

P.S. I've started exploring using vimeo.com (hopefully YouTube will have an HD player sometime in the next year.)

Yes, the video you posted could have been shot with a very inexpensive consumer video camera. It makes me want to run away from this Panasonic model as fast as I can, but I'm not sure it was the camera. The way the scene was jerking as you panned could have had to do with the fps you chose, but I'm just not sure. Also, those dusk scenes gave evidence of a camera that was having a serious problem with the sharp break between the colorful, bright sky and the dark, shadowed tree line. That could have been an iris setting issue; but, again, I'm just not sure.

The audio was remarkable, but that was dubbed in later, so it says nothing about the audio capability of the video camera, itself.

Finally, the video did not have anything like what Panasonic calls "cinematic" look, which this model should be able to do without breaking a sweat. (Even Panasonic's lower-end, prosumer video cameras can do the cinematic look fantastically.)

This all worries me. Either you are still on what appears to be a steep learning curve about what a professional-grade video camera can do, or this Panasonic model is not at all what I want.

I understand the desire to write a review while the enthusiasm for a new buy is still big, but it might be best for purchasers of merchandise like this to wait awhile in order to have broader and deeper insights to share. That way, we could be more certain that what we are seeing and reading is about the product and not about the buyer and his or her point on the rising learning curve and the declining enthusiasm curve.

Thanks for being the first to post a review, Stacey. As a professional shooter who's worked with P2 technology for the better part of two years, I can personally and directly attest to the fact that a 16GB card will give you 40 minutes of HD recording time when the settings are correct, and 17 minutes when the settings are essentially incorrect. The "secret" is to shot in Native mode.