New Air, New iLife and Consumer video cameras

Most consumer video cameras use Firewire... the new Air doesn't have this, but the new iLife (which includes iMovie) is one of the big features Apple are pushing with it.
Whats going on here then? How do they expect people to ingest their rushes??

most cameras within the last few years should support USB - firewire was more for DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO if i remember correctly. they're aging formats now and things rapidly moving to HD and those cams afaik should support USB - from consumer to professional
my sony ex3 supports both USB, Firewire & SD - firewire only for DVCPRO i think (don't really use that)
i'm in a similar boat though with audio as my entire studio is firewire based from audio converters to external DSP, etc...
just bought 11inch for on the road audio/video editing and may have to buy a USB audio capture device but YA - these are super mobile devices

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From reading previous posts, I see that iMovie 8 does not automatically convert video formats as did previous versions.
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At this point of “spinning my wheels for nearly a month” with this Flip Video camera, I decided to purchase a new iMac. On May 2, 2008, I walked out of the Apple Store in Walnut Creek with the new iMac 20-inch: 2.66GHz. Now the Flip video camera should work and all my video problems solved. However, this was not to be.
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Standard Definition (the format which the DVX100 shoots in) has a relatively straightforward editing workflow, tried and tested in recent years and easy to work with, particularly if you are working on a budget and are restricted to using an iMac, which has less options for expandability i.e adding a second firewire bus (not firewire port - sometimes you can get problems capturing video via firewire if you have your transfer deck or camera hooked up to your computer on the same firewire bus, despite being on separate ports - not always and you may never experience the problem, but if you're editing in more than a casual user environment you don't want to take the risk)
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HDV which the XA-H1 shoots in, is at the lower end of the Hi Def formats, looks great when shot well and displayed on a large screen hi-def tv, but is highly compressed and causes problems in the editing workflow.
Ideally, you want to have a monitor or at least a portable tv hooked up to your computer for external monitoring of your video - to check whether titles are correctly displayed within the title-safe areas and more importantly for colour correction as computer displays and tvs don't display video the same and whereas this may not be important if you're videoing your great aunt's birthday or the kids playing in the park, if you're doing serious stuff, such as commercials or short films you need to be able to monitor externally.
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Message was edited by: jcox

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I expect that you have already checked to see if anything from this link helps you:
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