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Post your comments for Review: Canon Vixia HF10 here

[MAC_PRO_MARC]

The article is correct in all respects. I bought the version without the 16GB of built in RAM for $200 less and bought 16GB Transcend SDHC cards for it at $69 on Amazon. I can use the card to transfer all my video. It all works flawlessly with my MAC PRO. I also can watch my movies on my Playstation 3 from the cards too.

[Photonerd]

More Fluff Piece Reviews... good job Macworld!
I love how image quality and battery life are listed as Cons, and then in the performance table they're both listed as "Good". Macworld hardware reviews are beyond useless in many cases. The old game of give a bad review and someone might decide to not provide you with reviewable product in the future.
Sad... get some spine MW. Bad is bad and good is good; stop being gentle and say what you actually think about these products. BTW for things like image and video quality Average, Good, Very good doesn't cut it when 80% of all the products are listed as good or better when some of them clearly aren't.

[billingham2006]

The review is certainly correct in that this Canon HDD camcorder does work with Macs. What it did not point out is that you have to have an Intel Mac in order for the AVCHD format to be supported. For those of us who are still using perfectly good PowerPC-based Macs (2.1 GHz iMac G5 with 1.5 GB RAM in my case), the HDD solution is not really available, and the mini-DV format is the only practical alternative.

[FrankeeD]

One concern I always have with HD based video camera is long-term storage of both raw and edited video. With MiniDV tapes, I have a stable medium that will last for many years if stored in good conditions.
HD Video cameras give you the choice of storing video on an external HD or burning it to a DVD or Blu-ray disk. However, none of these media are suitable for long-term storage. Does anyone have a solution to the problem of video storage?

[billingham2006]

I personally don't know of any better solution for long-term storage than MiniDV. I am preparing to purchase a Canon ZR950 model that is the top of their standard definition MiniDV line. I will probably burn some stuff to DVDs that I plan to give my relatives.

[tallscot]

Why doesn't this publication inform people that you have to wait 2X the length of the tape for it to import? It has to encode it into a different codec on import. This makes this tapeless camcorder on the Mac moot. There's really no point in having once since it takes twice as long to import than miniDV.
MacWorld does a disservice to its readers when you don't let them know this. You have to go to other, more independent, Web sites to get the truth.

[venividivici]

Before they disappear, I recommend the HV30, great HD, top of the line the previous HV20 got so many praises, and it is HDV (miniDV tape)
Excellent quality, works great on PowerPC, and you always have the backup of tape, plus it is one of the few left cameras that have firewire, usb and HDMI on it. So you could use an external HDD system attached through firewire, like firestore or so.
The price is not too bad from Amazon, and this camera is going to disappear soon.

[karotto1]

Frankly, it's hard to understand that a professional journalist could not foresee that users might want to look at sample footage and thus posted some here. Has that ever crossed your mind? Thanks

[panhead]

I have heard multiple sources state that the Canon HF10 works seamlessly with a Mac, but I disagree. How do you get it to work seamlessly? I do have a MacBook Pro with an Intel Core Duo and iMovie HD.
Thanks!

[Diliji]

You have to have iMovie 08 in order for it to work I have also tried calling cannon to see if any options are available for storage and backing up. All they suggest is iMovie, doesn't anyone have any suggestion on any 3rd party softwares.
Thanks in advance,

Michael

[Diliji]

As a quick side note if you have a Cannon Vixia HF10 and you don't have 3rd party software here is how you can back it up to an external hard drive. Once you have imported it into imovie 08 you can then go to your hard drive and open up a finder. Find the folder Movies under the places tab on the left. Inside of that folder you will find another folder called iMovie events open that folder and you should see a quick time version of your movies, cmd "A" and then cmd "C". this will select all and also copy the folders. You can then paste this into a hard drive of your choice. Then you can delete all videos on your Cannon through the function button, while your control is set to play back. Hit function, hit set, then push set again, and scroll to delete all movies. I hope this is helpful to someone it took me two days to figure out. No thanks to cannon's cheerful support team.

[tswerv]

Ok, i have a Mac Intel Core Duo with iMovie... should i go with Canon HD10 or Sony HDR SR11? I'll mostly shoot footage of my kids, sporting events, etc... nothing pro. Every site seems to have these two neck and neck, other than Sony slightly edging Canon on battery.

[verakot]

>> the camcorder works seamlessly with iMovie '08 () and Final Cut Pro <<

I have iMac G5 2.1Ghz PPC with MacOS Tiger and Canon HF10 did not work with iMovie 08 or Final Cut Pro. I upgrade to Leopard and still the camera does not work with iMovie08 or iMovie HD. Looks like it does not work with PowerPC at all, does not matter if it's Tiger or Leo.

I'm doing to give it a shot on MacBook Core Duo2, however I still have Tiger on it. According to Wired.com review, HF10 only works with Leopard...

Talking about "seamlessly"......................