Hi; thanks for the reply.

I find that the JVC seems to have a fair amount of noise when viewing in full HD; I'm yet to play with any footage from it in Final Cut though as the work I did was edited by a friend of mine as I was too busy to do it myself unfortunately.

The client was happy with the work but we supplied the footage in SD anyway so as my short film will be HD I was a little worried.

I still have some footage of the Lancaster, Spitfire and Huricane flying over the Ladybower reservoir here in the High Peak that I'm yet to edit but when I watched it in 1080i (connection via HDMI cable) on my TV it had noise.

I do have my own lighting setup and green screen for controlled filming but I have a few locations I want to shoot and won't be able to control the lighting there - one location is quite dark (and needs to be for the shot I'm looking for) so this is worrying me quite a bit as well.

I guess I'm just worried that the JVC isn't going to give me professional quality footage and I'm going to be dissapointed with the final production; most of my video work has been for web or CD-ROM delivery so high definition was never a requirement but as I want to move into doing a lot more video work (and my client's are asking for more of this kind f thing) I need to have something that will give me excellent results.

Maybe I was jumping the gun and panicking a little and the best option is for me to shoot some test footage in the locations I'm thinking of and see how I get on with it in post production, then decide if the camera's right for what I'm after.