Camera recommendations for classroom use

I teach a beginning video class using intel imacs . Currently running imovie 6 HD (cuz we don't like the new 08) BUT.. if I could find an hard disk camera that would hook up and work with FCE (new) and imovie 08, I'd switch I just tried the canon hg 10 and the JVC Everio without any success. Read all the forums , tried the sequences mentioed and file fixes (did not find the Pervian file to delete) and neither will load to drive status or detected by software so.... what are others who want to edit with Mac software doing for cameras?. Need new ones as the newer canon mini dv's just die much too quickly -and my students have been gentle with them this year.

Canon makes excellent equipment and their technical support people always seem Macintosh savvy (They were very familiar with iMovie 06).
I use my Canon with iMovie 06 and iDVD 08. (and occasionally with iMovie 08)
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ProductCatIndexAct&fcategoryid= 173

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There are many forums devoted to cameras. Decide which format you want to shoot then wander over to the creative cow or 2pop and start reading through the cinematography threads.
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Paid app onto other devices for classroom use

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Actually, two things surprise me in your statement and one is simply incorrect:
As for Broadcast quality..... a little station called CNN - you might have heard about them bought 250 of them from Panasonic about a year ago.
First, that CNN would buy JVC cameras not from JVC, but from Panasonic.
Second, there are no JVC cameras on the BBC approved list at all, see http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/site/BBC_Approved_HD_Cameras.pdf and the only affordable ones on the list in the handheld category are the Canon XF300/305. Maybe that is the reason the BBC bought 350 of these. Even the Sony XDCAM EX is only accepted in combination with a 50 Mb disk drive, not in the native 35 Mb format.
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This simply means that the Canon codec is very acceptable to the BBC for HD programs. The XF100 uses the same codec, but is only a single sensor camera and for that reason alone not approved by the BBC.
Paul, if you can live with the limitations of a single sensor camera - and given your intended purposes, I think you can - the JVC does not even come close and the XF100 material will be hardly worse than the XF300/305. To the untrained eye the results are almost the same.

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Hello DeltaJ,
Can I suggest that you contact the UK branch by calling 01635 523545 and request that you speak to you local Inside Sales Representative. They will be able to speak to you further regarding your full systems specifications and suggest which NI products will be best for you.
With regards,
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