Compact in size, light weight and fully featured, the Canon 4888B001 XF100 Professional Camcorder can be tailored to fit a wide range of individual needs. The XF100 utilizes Canon's XF codec a file based MPEG 2 compression with an MXF file wrapper that ensures the widest compatibility with existing industry infrastructure, metadata and non linear editing NLE systems. The codec's 4 2 2 color sampling provides ultra fine transitions in tone and color for maintaining the highest image quality needed for advanced post production processing.