Intel iMac and new digital cameras

Hi,
Thinking of purchasing a Sony digital camera with the built in HD (vs. buying those that use a DVD/CD). The HD type can hold up to 5hrs. of video vs. the CD version's 1 hr.
However, it's newer technology so don't know much about the pros/cons. Does Apple/iMac support the ability to be able to connect this new digial camera to the computer (essentially seeing it as an external hard drive), and allow me to copy the videos to my mac, play around with it in the video software and then burn to a DVD/CD from the computer?
Any suggestions or feedback would be helpful.
Thanks!

In fact, it's not the HD that's a problem, it's that they encode the video using either MPEG4 or MPEG2. There are perfectly good DV-HD camcorders out there.
Video for editing should be recorded in one of the DV formats: DV, DV-HD, DVCPRO, etc. These formats don't use a lossy compression algorithm, so they maintain the highest quality and fidelity of recording. Because they don't use the lossy compression of the MPEG encoding of the direct-to-DVD camcorders, the video requires much more space than you find on a DVD, hence the reason they use 14G or 21G DV tapes.
With MPEG2 and MPEG4, the video has already been compressed and quality substantially degraded. To edit it, you need to transcode it into one of the edit formats (one of the DV variants), and then export it -- which takes time and degrades the video quality.
You want one of those direct-to-DVD camcorders only if you never want to edit the video, just play it back exactly as you shot it. In that scenario they are ideal because it saves you from running anything throught the computer.

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