Panasonic PV-GS35 Camcorder Review

Compression (8.0)
The PV-GS35 uses standard DV compression to MiniDV tape. MiniDV compression is certainly the standard of video quality against which all other compression formats are judged. We obviously love the look of MiniDV video, and frankly, this new section is more for those camcorders which use compression types such as MPEG2 or MPEG4 where a lot of information is lost. Of course, there are better formats out there, like DVCAM, DVCPRO, BetaCamSP, etc. and this is why we give all MiniDV camcorders a compression score of 8, instead of 10.

 Media (8.0)
The Panasonic PV-GS35 has the ability to record video to 6.35mm MiniDV tape in both SP and LP modes. Eighty minutes can be recorded in SP mode with 120 minutes available in LP mode. SD cards, ranging from 8 MB to 1 GB, can be used capture digital stills at a resolution of 640 x 480.

 Editing (8.0)
Video footage recorded to MiniDV tape can be edited very easily using any of the many editing software suites, most notably Avid and Final Cut Pro, though many manufactures include rudimentary editing software with their products. The PV-GS35 ships with MotionDV Studio 5.3, an example of such elementary software.