Firewire and video input upgrade issue

I work for a school district and support IMovie and video at schools, we have hundreds of firewire camcorders and hundreds of Ibooks,Imacs,Macbooks at schools. None of those camcorders are compatible with the new macbooks. We have many students video editing, but only the new sd card camcorders will work. ( one school has 5 of the Canon FS100, the other 54 have firewire camcorders) Has Apple offered any suggestion on this? When users have IMovie they expect it to work. The elimination of firewire has created a major roadblock to upgrading. Most schools want to hang on to their old equipment that works. how are others handling this?

Ziatron wrote:
Most schools want to hang on to their old equipment that works.
A lot of NEW equipment is Firewire as well.
If you are doing video, FireWire is a must.
Thousands of computer peripherals use Firewire, _with more coming out all the time._
This Macbook has FireWire
http://www.apple.com/macbook/white/
Pass on your concerns to Apple, be nice, be polite, be HONEST.
Apple does listen to it's customers and respond
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbook.html
Your statements are not correct.
Most new video cameras are now using USB as they are HiDef cameras.
Also there are NOT 1000's of Firewire devices, 100's maybe.

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