JVC further expands its ProHD camcorder line-up by introducing, this month, two professional solid state camcorders, the ultra-compact GY-HM100 (above right) and the shoulder-mounted GY-HM700 (above left), the industry’s first to store files in native QuickTime for Apple’s Final Cut Pro onto reliable and inexpensive SDHC media cards. Both camcorders natively record the file format used by Apple QuickTime for Final Cut Pro. Video clips are dragged directly from the storage media onto the nonlinear editor’s timeline, eliminating the need for transcoding, while maintaining original first-generation image quality. The GY-HM100 is the smallest professional format 3-CCD camcorder on the market, at about the size of a lens on a typical 2/3-inch imager camera. This makes it ideal for applications where a full-size camera would be impractical, such as tight quarters and operating in potentially unsafe situations. For a smaller footprint and less conspicuous shooting, the handle can be easily removed and the audio can be recorded via the built-in two-channel microphone. The GY-HM700 features three precisely aligned 1/3-inch progressive scan full HD CCDs. JVC engineers developed a unique 1/3-inch optical block with Diagonal Offset and a patented exclusive Adaptive Pixel Correlation Technique that produces resolution significantly higher than previous JVC models and comparable to cameras with larger image sensors. $3,995 (GY-HM100); $7,995 (GY-HM700). www.jvc.com/pro.