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I've just purchased the new 17" Macbook Pro with HD-screen.
I need a camera that records in HD, and is relatively easy to edit together - also allowing me to watch the final cut on my HD Sony Bravia, but be able to burn a good quality DVD to send back to England (the film's of my new baby!)
I've hear the new Sony's are a bugger to edit with, should I be looking at an HDV camera?
I'm a little confused!
Thanks....

As I said before, I'm a Mac newbie, so I won't pretend to know anything. But after reading your post, I connected my Sony HDR-SR12 via USB, turned it on, got a dialog on the camera about a USB connection had been found and did I want to connect to the camera's hard disk or the camera's memory stick (of which I have none) so I selected hard disk. Within moments, the computer registered "no name" disk on the desktop, and Adobe Bridge CS3 had indexed the contents of the camera's hard disk and was asking me what I wanted to download. I quit Bridge and its Photo Download, and opened iMovie. Within seconds, MUCH less than a minute, it had indexed the camera's hard drive and generated thumbnails of everything on the hard drive, and was asking me which ones I wanted to import.
I don't have any idea why this was so different between you and me. I don't know whether it has something to do with different Macs, different versions of OS X, or something else. All I can say is that compared to my previous (non-HD) Sony camcorder (mini-DV), this one that uses both a large hard drive (120 GB) and memory sticks of up to 16 GB is simply a dream. It's fast, easy, there are no worries about tapes jamming or getting damaged, somehow, and it's almost instantaneous going back and forth through different recordings on a hard drive, without having to rewind or fast-forward a tape. I am as enthusiastic as you are, only in reverse: I MUCH prefer this camera with a large hard drive and hope I never again have to mess with tapes!
I'm really curious about why your experience with that SR5 was so very different than mine with the SR12. I can't believe the cameras are significantly different in that regard, and I wonder if it's something about our Mac setups. Maybe someone else can offer a guess.

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