Camera just died... should I stick with MiniDV format?

I only need SD and I want to make sure I get a camera that works well with FCP 6. Should I stick with MiniDV format or are there Memory Card or Hard Drive based cameras that work well for SD shooting and FCP? Thanks

Hello Bruce,
What kind of budget are you looking at when it comes to the purchase of your next camera?
As a previous owner, I highly recommend purchasing a used, low hours, Panasonic AG-DVX100B.
It is a fantastic camera, I don't want to start up a war of the SD cameras in this thread but I personally believe it is the best SD camera ever made. And many others feel the same way. It can shoot in multiple frame rates (24P, 24PA, 30P, and 60i) and with the cameras scene files it makes it easy to get the look you want. It is built like a tank and with the Leica lens you get very good quality with no need to transcode to a different format for FCP.
Do some research on them if you haven't already. I guarantee you wont be disappointed if that is the route you took. I know I wasn't.

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Hi:
Windows XP SP3 32bit, latest updates applied
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Yes.
Victory is mine.
VICTORY IS MINE!!!
Solution:
Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg
Set
AVHardwareDisable=1
to:
AVHardwareDisable=0
Restart your browser. Done. Camera works now.
I really want to shout this solution from the rooftops, because try Googling the solution sometime. I did. I failed. You will too. Hopefully if I use some more 18-point bold font, Google will index it faster, because that's the way it works right?
I actually had no idea that Flash Player has a folder in Windows\system32 at all, and I definitely had no idea that this file existed. I am guessing some stinking app I installed decided I needed AVHardwareDisable set to 1 for some reason (effers). I found out about the location by just lazily searching through the windows registry for "Flash Player" and eventually saw it pointing to that directory. A little more poking around and I found this file.
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Dieop wrote:
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