1.Need for external burners for Panasonic sd5? General grumbling!

1.Has anyone tried writing an avchd film from the mac HD back onto the sdhc card or indeed another sdhc card via a card writer. If it is possible to rewrite such archived avchd files back onto sd then successfully display them on a HDtv using the camera itself it rather makes a mockery of the whole dvd writer thing. If such cards arent recognised by the camera then it may be worth considering. Unfortunately those of us on the expensive/ ripped off side of the pond have no such free writer bundles such as that seen at circuit city- GRRRRRRR
Im also willing to take bets for how long it is before a smart encoder develops a way for us to use a universal binary mac friendly AVCHD specific editing programme which may put imovies to the sword. Hopefully the Jobs team will realise that they have missed a step in technology and get back to the cutting edge which is after all ahy we choose mac. A little more attention to the core computer market and a little less to phones might restitute this developing problem. At present PCs are starting to offer all this- ulead etc and Im not used to being outclassed in this way!

If I understand you correctly.
You have limited space on the SD cards and limited cards, so at some stage you will need to erase them and your only means of playing HD content is from your camera. You wish to copy the AVCHD files from the camera to your mac for storage and at some point be able to put them back onto the card to play from your camera.
Personally I'd try it, you have nothing to lose, providing you have a spare card. Disk images do work for many but not for all it would appear, I assume you can use replace the files and file structure back to the card if you have a working disk image. To find out if you have a working disk image, try mounting it and see whether imovie sees it as a camera or not.

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