I need to clarify before Purchase of High Def Cam

Probably a stupid question, hope its the right thread, but hey! so here goes:
I'm new to high def and about to purchase an HD cam. As Apple and BluRay arent the best of friends at the moment (maybe a bit strong?!), i.e don't have the full array of output options as you do with SD, Im assuming I can just edit away in either AVCHD or HDV without the use of any other third party s/ware and just using my Finalcut Studio 2 I am able to produce a standard definition DVD in DVD Studio Pro?

Unless you are using a hardware assist like the AJA HDIO or one the the blackmagic devices, which will connect to an HDV camera and do the transcode on capture, capturing HDV over firewire and transcoding to ProRes 422 causes a significant lag: that is, when you stop the camera the process continues for some time. I don't even know if you can do a full one hour tape, for example. That said (which I read on this board), in my limited tests to a single, internal SATA drive (the second one, not the system drive) on my G5 Quad, at least two minutes were captured using the ProRes422 for HDV "easy setup" without any lag (two clips, starts a new clip at camera start/stop), and the display showing "real time capture" the entire two minutes.
But, while capturing HDV to a ProRes sequence, you can only do "capture now" and not capture and log. So if you need to recapture for whatever reason, you don't just get to use the log. You basically position the tape where you want it, start up "log and capture" and a screen appears, starts up your tape and begins capturing until you hit escape. There is an annotation in the window indicating how much behind things might be. Mine said "capture in real time" for my two minute test. A new clip is created on each camera start/stop, however.
So, if you are willing live without log and capture, it's a faster way to to as you note.
Oh, and AVCHD is a more consumer format with lower quality (so far) than HDV. HDV is 25mb/s; AVCHD is around 17mb/s, and with claims of true HD (1920x1080 rather than HDV's 1440x1080), there is significantly more compression. Check out camcorderinfo.com for some camera reviews of both types where compression and its artifacts are discussed.
Ed
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