AVCHD support and some useful new effects keep this as the leading entry-level video editor.

Find out why your AVCHD camcorder has been given a breath of fresh air and which company to thank.

Support for latest video formats and a batch-media encoder, but supporting apps have seen little upgrading.

Pocket-sized digital camcorders are becoming more capable all the time. We round up ten of the best

One beautiful camera, with one awful flaw.

A fully featured hard disk AVCHD camcorder with plenty of recording space

A capable cam that'll take the knocks and matches it rival, the Panasonic HDC-SD1. It can’t quite better Canon’s HV20 on sheer performance though

There’s so much to like about this package that it might just be worth switching operating systems to get hold of it.

Great image quality and plenty of enthusiast features for a very reasonable price

A dinky AVCHD camcorder, with respectable video performance and a reasonable price.

HD editing finally heads to the desktop in this major update to a favourite consumer editing package.

A fully featured hard disk AVCHD camcorder with plenty of recording space

Canon’s first hard disk-based AVCHD camcorder gets it mostly right, with a good level of features and the best image quality we’ve yet seen from the format.

Not much to tempt you over last year's HV20 but Canon still rules the roost when it comes to raw picture quality

A new interface, smart albums, guided editing and photo merging keep Photoshop Elements ahead of the pack

A great next-generation camcorder, but it lacks editing support for the recording format

The marker has been laid down. Sony's pulled off another AVCHD stunner that will be hard to beat this year

The SD1 looks stunning, and performs even better. If this is what AVCHD delivers, then we’re totally sold

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1 is waterproof, shockproof and dustproof. Hoping to be the ultimate rugged consumer camera, the FT1 also offers HD video and a wide 28mm lens.

Fujifilm's 3D camera promises 3D wonders on a budget, although we're still not sure if the concept is more than a gimmick