About the purchase of a new video camera DV or HDV.

I must change my old video camera.
I am interested by the purchase of the video camera SONY HDR-HC7E.
Does somebody know it it?
To you it correctly functions on Mac OS 10.4 - G4 - input ilink ?
Is what there are problems to do of video acquisition to format HDV on imovie 6 or FCP 5 ?
If somebody has experience successful with another type of recent video camera of SONY, with acquisition on miniDV and
semi-professional or professional characteristics?
Can you indicate your consulting to me?
Thank you with all.
powerbook G4, 17", 1,5 G Mac OS X (10.4.8) ilife 6 + QT7 Pro + FCP 5 + RAM 1 Go

The Sony HDR-HC7E should work perfectly with iMovie HD.
The camera records in HDV format on miniDV tapes. The camera connects to a Mac with a 4-pin-to-6-pin FireWire cable ..also known as an i.LINK or DV cable ..but there probably won't be one in the box with the camera: you'll have to buy one separately.
I use two Sony HDV (FX1 and HC1) cameras with iMovie HD, and they both work perfectly.
Sometimes, iMovie might not quite recognise the camera, or may not import from it. In those cases, always put a short clip of video at the start of your project, play that, and then try importing.
(..If you don't have an HDV clip, because it's the first time you've tried importing HDV, you can download a 2 second clip - if you have broadband - from my download page here ..)
Just one thing, Pierre: you have a "powerbook G4, 17", 1,5 GHz" ..importing HDV on a G4 PowerBook will be -v-e-r-y - -s-l-o-w- and you may find that it imports at a quarter 'realtime' speed. So importing 15 minutes of HDV may take 1 hour.
HDV really needs a very fast Mac to work in real time, so you may need to think about changing your Mac as well when you buy an HDV camcorder, sorry!

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