Hey Grapesoda....I switched over to my Canon EOS 5D MK 3 about a year ago.
I have my Panasonic HPX 170 HD vid camera gathering mothballs now.
There is no comparison in quality. And the only thing you need to do to have clear focus across the field is use a high F stop on the DSLR.
I shoot video in Aperture Priority mode. Set the F stop up super high. Then you can use the "Auto Focus" to bring the shutter speed to where it needs to be to compensate.
Then you are in focus. And there is no depth of field.
And between the lens and the DSLR chips...it will absolutely blow the vid cam away.
As an added bonus...you only need to have one camera on you. Switch it to Camera mode to shoot your stills. Then switch to Video mode to shoot the video.
This is shot with Canon 5D Mk3 with the settings the way I just described using nothing but the normal light in my bedroom (keep in mind it's already edited and compressed, the raw footage is even crisper):
The video is 3:51 long. Other than stopping to talk about dialogue...it took no time to shoot at all. I think we walked in the room and it was completed in about 6 minutes total.
No lighting set up, took about 2 seconds to focus. Just super easy.
And the "blacks" are really black. Which makes the contrast and coloring so much better than what any prosumer vid cam can ever achieve.
The only way to get to that quality would be to drop some serious, serious money on a RED...
Anyway, just wanted to chime in. A lot of "shooters" act all mysterious about shooting video with a DSLR.
But if you use one for just a few minutes you figure out how incredibly simple it is. And when I am shooting a real scene with it and using my kino flo lighting and taking my time to really get the shots...it's just fantastic.