Support for hard disk drive camcorders

I am currently using FCE with footage I have taken using my digital stills camera (which produces mov files.) I am now looking to buy a decent camcorder but have read on the forums that FCE does not support HDD or DVD camcorders, only DV and HDV ones - is that the case?
I thought HDD camcorders produced video files that I could just import into my project (much like my stills digital camera) rather than going through the whole capture process into FCE - can anyone tell me if this is so? If so, why does FCE 'not support' them?
Please help a camcorder and FCE newbie out before he makes an expensive mistake.
Thanks
Darius

FCE supports standard video formats. Once again some stupid camera manufacturer has come up with non-existent format and expects people to use it. That's just BS. There is no digital format that is 848x80. There is no digital format that's 30fps. There is no SD format that uses square pixels. And who knows what codec it's using. Do you? The format specifications for DV and HDV are created by consortiums and sanctioned by international standards bodies. None of the formats available in DV or HDV conform to that. Just because they're using the QuickTime architecture doesn't mean anything. In FCP you can make a sequence any shape and a number of different frame rates, that doesn't mean it's a standard format. When you put material in an FCE sequence it has to conform to the standard specifications of the format your selected. Your material doesn't conform to anything, which why you have to render it.

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