[WildMan]

I peronally do not want a tapeless camcorder. I do a lot of taping, mostly for archiving purposes. While I can understand the benefit of going tapeless in a high-paced production environment. I wonder how and if they archive their raw footage, short of keeping the flash cards and buying more for the next shoot. Using a tape, I have an instant archive. I am still using the first gen Sony HD camera, which records to MiniDV. I am looking at the Canon HD cam which uses MiniDV. I like being able to pop in another tape and keep shooting.

[uglygeorge]

I can't argue with Professor Chen's total failure on his named camcorders.
But I CAN tell you why my Panasonic AG-HSC1U worked flawlessly out of the box a few months ago (this is the more professional version of his named camcorder, using SD-HC chips beautifully.) That very day Apple upgraded iMovie, FCP, and Pro-Apps. Not bothering to read the moronic blogs of time-wasters wailing that 'it can't be done', I immediately loaded some (great) video onto my HD using AVCHD codec. Lossless. It edits perfectly in both iMovie & FCP.
I found a more direct way to load video from the chip; I then erased the chip & have now used this "videotape" some 50 times in 5 months.

[Srini]

I recently bought a MBP and had hell of a time making it recognise my Sony HDD camcorder(DCR-SR100).

The 30 GB camera HDD was full so it took ages to import into iMovie 08 to generate thumbnails. This camera records in 5.1 surround and I cannot preserve that as it imports in stereo L and R channels only. Sony on the other hand does not ship a Mac version of image mixer with this camera. I am now stuck with both these expensive products.:_|

Secondly, the footage from the same camcorder that I had previously copied to an external USB Hard disk (.mpg -mpeg2 format) is not recognised by imovie08 at all.

Apple support suggest to use all kinds of thrid party software to convert it. I am very disappointed with iMovie's inablity to work with standard video format like mpeg2 (muxed or demuxed).

Any ideas from other users are welcome.

[drossco]

I have a Sony DCR-SR200 and installed iMovie08. I was told that 08 would recognize the camera however it does not.
Anyone been able to get them to work together?

[ladyharley01]

I have a JVC GZ-MG330 HD camcorder and an iMac. I wanted to go tapeless so I bought this cute little camera. While I really like the camera with it's small compact size, nice screen and laser touch menu, I am really bummed out because it is not compatible with my computer. I read the paper manual, I read and re-read the CD manual, I called JVC support. The tech there told me that I needed to purchase iMovie 8. I have 7. I just emailed Apple customer service to find out BEFORE I buy iMovie 8 if it will indeed allow me to download video from the camcorder.
I have a really bad feeling that I'm going to have to ship the camera back to where I got it before the return policy expires.
I guess I'll go back to filming with my mini tape camcorder. :-<

[lexsmall]

I have just bought a Panasonic HDC-HS9 as Panasonic said that it was compatible with Mac, but i can not get the video off onto my mac and after read about tapeless camcorder on this site i under stand that there are ways around this, has any else got the same camcorder and who has found the best way around this problem.
Any comment or help on this would be very much appreciated

[misterdregs]

The article stated that the Sony HDR-SR11 passed the test.
It's nearly identical brother, the HDR-SR10 is NOT listed on the Apple site as compatible. If it's not going to work seamlessly, it'll be returned. Would I be wrong to assume this one's going to work?

[ramraj108]

Can you please tell me if you are using the Xacti 1000 or the Xacti 1010? Or are you using an earlier Xacti? Also, are your running Leopard or Tiger? Also, how are you importing the footage, into iMovie or using streamclip or some other application?Thank you. If you could also tell me if the Xacti you are using is switchable from NTSC to PAL, that would also be a big help.

[rhberg]

Those of you with the JVC Everio camcorders probablly know that their proprietary TOD format is not very useful to users accustomed to working with videos productively (i.e., Mac users). There are plenty of discussions about this out there and I have not had any problems dealing with the JVC TOD files after I started using MPEG Streamclip to open the TOD files. I export them as DVs and these can be used by a variety of editing software. When exporting them, I use the default settings except that I select "deinterlace video", which is essential to eleminate those irritating interlacing artifacts.



Good luck!

Howard