Capturing AVCHD Footage

Hello. I am trying to decide to buy a hard drive HD camera or a Digital Tape HD Camera. I do most of my editing on a PowerMac G5 that is not intel chip mac. I understand to capture avchd footage you need an intel chip mac. To get around that, I would capture the footage from the Hard Drive Camera using a Macbook that I have is an intel chip based machine, using final cut express. I would capture the footage onto an external hard drive. I would then connect that drive to my PowerMac G5, that again is not an intel chip mac. Would I be able to edit that footage using final cut express even though the PowerMac I edit on is not an intel chip mac?

Yes.
Upon import, the AVCHD is converted to Apple Intermediate Codec. So after import, anything which can edit AIC will work.

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