I am look for a compatible minidvd camcorder

I am ready to buy a camcorder and I want one that I can import into imovie, of course. Where can I find a list of compatible cameras. Or what am I looking for exactly. Does it only need a firewire? or a certian file type?
Or maybe a camcorder that records to DVD. I do have a stream clip converter that I am a little bit experienced with. But I do want a camera thats going to let me edit my films on my mac.
Any guidence please.
thank you for your time
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To the best of my knowledge there is no comprehensive list available. Even Apple's list leaves off many older camcorders than many of us know work fine with iMovie. Best thing to do it post your short list of possible buys and see if anyone here has one and can verify it works. For the most part, most DV format camcorders with Firewire ports tend to work.
iMovie is designed to only import from camcorders via a Firewire connection and DV format video. To the best of my knowledge, all MiniDV and Digital8 tape based camcorders conform to both of those things. Unless you have old Hi8 and/or 8mm video tapes you need to import, MiniDV is probably the better choice for most people over Digital8.
If you plan on doing a decent amount of work in iMovie, then you really want to stick with a tape based MiniDV type camcorder and avoid DVD or flashbased cameras as these record in a compressed format (typically MPEG2) that would have to be converted back to DV for iMovie use. As you mentioned MPEG Streamclip will do this for you, but why not start out with the better quality of DV format rather than a lossy compressed format?
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