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Personally I don't see why people would use the new Panasonic camera. If I was shooting a feature for $10k I wouldn't want to have to drag a data copying person around with a laptop, big hard drive and a tape drive to do nothing all day other than copy video from P2 cards to the laptop and back...

What do you want to do with the finished movie? Since 16:9 is just a flag in the bit-stream, you can edit as though it's a 4:3 video and then, say, create a DVD with the 16:9 flag set (assuming the DVD creation software lets you set the flag: mine does). The downside is that text will be...

All true 16:9 DV (or HDV or DVDs for that matter) is squeezed horizontally into a 4:3 frame, and then stretched out again when played back on a 16:9 TV. Premiere used to just detect the 16:9 flag on the tape and automatically set the aspect ratio, Avid doesn't, but has a 16:9 option on the...

Maybe... but in the last five years I've edited over a dozen shorts, a feature, an hour-long drama and a couple of half-hour to hour documentaries using a TRV900 as an edit deck and it's still running fine. A head replacement is cheaper than buying a DV deck (though probably more expensive than...

I haven't done a negative cut from Avid, but I did a 16mm cut from Premiere 4.2 a few years back :). All I needed was the burnt-in timecode that they recorded on the rushes (which you appear to have in the top left), and the EDL from Premiere... the negative cutter did the rest.

I'd aim for 10:1 myself. I shot a 5-minute short at 6:1 a while back and it was tricky to edit around the unexpected problems with so little coverage... a couple of extra shots and it would have been easy. Also don't forget the unexpected problems on set: I started with an 8:1 ratio, but the...

How can you create a 'full rez anamorphic picture' when you don't have a full-rez 16:9 CCD? For example, I've used the 16:9 mode on my TRV900 and it looks significantly worse than 4:3 footage after it's digitally scaled up in the camera and then scaled back down in the DVD player and letterboxed...

I'm not sure, actually... I was just AD-ing on those movies. I think they'd all done at least some acting before.

My favorites are the Senheisser 416 and MKH60. Either will set you back about 1000-1200 pounds with all the accessories.

Ouch. I've had some limited experience of shooting shorts with child actors on 16mm... it wasn't pretty. I'd definitely shoot HD rather than film, you're probably going to need all the takes you can get :).

You kind of missed the big one: the Z1 will shoot HD, the XL2 only shoots SD :). Personally, the only reason I can see to buy an XL2 over the Z1 is if you really, really need interchangeable lenses: even then I'd consider waiting until the new JVC HDV camera is released. Sure, you can shoot...