Jvc camcoder working on iMovie

I'm going to purchase a video camera and have done some research. I thought I would get a JVC MG255 and before I buy it was checking the discussion group to see if there were any problems. I've read some columns about no audio / max number of clip transfers and such. One comment was to only use firewire and not USB... I would like some feedback before I get it... or maybe I should go for another brand if iMovie has problems with JVC products...
Thanks

I got my MG255 about a month ago. There is a problem with importing clips, yes they loose sound if you have too many, not sure what the limit is, Apple says 60 others say 99, all I know is 30 or 40 come over just perfect, I had 198 after vacation and they all came in without sound, my fallback was to use thedock tht came with the camera to transfet in real time via firewire, (like 4 hours to bring in the 198 clips from a 3 week vacation). On the firewire you have to sort clips by date and take one date a t a time and play wile importing to imovie 08. They still come n as individual clips and have the date made attached to the set of daily clips which become a separate event in iMovie08.
More importantly: Camera + very good low light performance, - poor bright sunlight performance. Colors in sunlight are exagerated in reds and highlights burn out. - Camera has poor auto focusing, there were times on the beach where subjects at intermedate distance would only focus properly at 1x to 5x zoom, past that sometimes it won't focus when you zoom closer than the intermediate range of optical. (The manual focus is clumsy to use and the LCD resolution is so poor it is difficult to focus especially outside under a bright sky!) I don't know the cause of the problem with autofocus, , ...maybe low contrast between subject and beach sand, or background. This happened a number of times in different environments and subjects. I think there is some prolem in the camera. . I inquired at JVC got no answers yet.
Generally, it seems that the cheapest mini tape cameras give better quality video than the Everios. I am disappointed and would consider sellng you mine at heavy discount if interested. Whats the point of the big hard drive ifyou cant transfeer all the clips into your $2500 iMac and iMovie 08 anyway? Of course I think it would work ok on the Windows environment with Piniacle Studio 11...at least they claim it will!

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