Camcorders and Mac

[TheMaskedAvenger]

Just researching on what Camcorder to buy and it seems that to work with my Mac (iMovie HD and Final Cut Pro) I need to stick with DV tape. Seems Hard Disk, DVD or SD wont allow me to import it and edit it.

Any one have any experience of HD or SD and Mac compatibility?

[robbieduncan]

The latest version of iMovie supports quite a large range of formats as you can see here: http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/

"Expanded format support.

iMovie supports standard and high definition video, as well as the most popular formats, including DV, HDV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and even AVCHD."

[kiwisr]

Tape is still the best. All others compress the video and lose quality.

[Leithen]

kiwisr said:

Tape is still the best. All others compress the video and lose quality.

Have been toying with the idea of getting one recently - any recommendations?

[kiwisr]

The Canon HV20 seemed to be very good, don't know if that's out of date by now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACVZp-UMD0Y&fea...

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I have just bought a Panasonic SD1 for the (very imminent!) birth of my first born. It records AVCHD on to SD cards. 4Gb fits about 80 minutes of HiDef footage and so far I'm finding it excellent. It works perfectly with the Mac using iMovie and a USB card reader.

Right, gotta get back to the delivery ward