Issues with Canon HV20?

I am on the verge of purchasing a canon HV20 and iMovie '08. My biggest goal is to watch game film of my kids sporting events in HD. I've heard that some have complained about 1080i using this camera. Can anyone comment?
Thanks

I just did not think that I achieve as much of the look as I expected. I am not sure about the shutter speed. It is supposed to be 1/48 or something like that to achieve the maximum film-like appeareance. When you put this camera in "P" & modify to 24p with cinema mode you are not able to verify what the shutter speed is.
I am not sure if it is in the proper speed to achieve the maximum effect. Do not get me wrong, there is a slight difference with your standard HD mode, however, it was a little less than I expected.
Again, I am not sure if the shutter speed sets itself when you have it on "Cinema mode" @ 24p
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Well, it seems to me that it looks the same. I am not an expert here, but it occurs to me that you can either shoot in 25p or de-interlace it from 50i. I think it gives the same quality but the latter is more complicated unless you have the Final Cut.
Here I got an intersting link on that matter:
http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?p=259483
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Canon's website says I shouldn't need anything for OS X support.
About to head upstairs to my windows box to see if it'll see it.
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... it certainly makes me wonder about your compute setup. Do you have any other Firewire devices connected to your computer when you are trying to make the video transfer? I know some earlier Canon DV camcorders wanted to be the only Firewire device on the bus during transfer.
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A number of people on this forum have written about shooting 24p with the Canon HV20 and I have also read independent reviews about it.
So why does my HV20 only have 25p in the menus and manual ?
Is it because mine is PAL and the others are NTSC ?
Will 25p be superior to 24p ?
Also how do you deal with it when using FCE/FCP ? Do you treat it exactly as you would 1080i50 HDV and use the same Easy Setups etc.?
Actually it is not called "25p" but "HDV(PF25)"
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I think it's like most things, you can _Crash and Burn_ or _Crash and Learn._
Jump in and try everything.
Thankfully we use PAL and _Not The Same Colour_ twice.
What's (PF25) stand for? 25 Progressive Frames??
BTW: I doubt if your camera will or Mac will catch fire under normal test conditions.
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thank you for your time team.
why isn't imovie clever enough to receive my older tape which i guess isn't digital? its hardly ancient technology or tape. if my hv20 plays it, why doesn't imovie just receive it?
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