What camcorder would you recommend to buy that has the firewire and ability

to upload directly to imovie? I have a JVC MG20 which is great but gave me all sorts of complications in adjusting/changing settings etc just to get it into imovie. Im now intending on buying a new one in the next few months which will make my life simpler and i would like peoples opinions and recommendations. The JVC i have now is a hard drive style which i like, dont want to mess around with dvd discs in the camcorder, much rather do my editing on the mac and make a dvd from that.
Thanks for any advice given...

Really any Sony or Canon that has firewire and DV Tape...do not get a DVD nor a Hard drive camera, though. They are NOT compatible with iMovie at this time.
:)Sue

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I need to purchase something within a week and a half and would truly appreciate suggestions from anyone here. Here are a list of my questions and I hope you all will be kind of enough to help me. Thank you in advance.
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They are not bad - just unsuitable for FCE and all good editing programs.
There are several totally different kinds of Digital Video - many people mistakenly think all "digital" is the same.
DVD, Flash Memory or Hard Disk camcorders produce video in a version of the MPEG format.
FCE etc. only handles video in the DV or QT format which is totally different from MPEG.
One analogy would be to buy a diesel powered car and then find that all the filling stations in your area only had petrol (gasolene) pumps. Your car would be pretty useless !
The only way MPEG can be used in FCE is by converting it to DV or QT which wastes time or money and results in slightly reduced quality.
All these cameras are produced for the mass market (where the money is), to be used by people with no knowledge or interest in film-making or editing.
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You'll get a kick out of this. I started with a Betamovie in 1984, switched to Hi8 in 1993, and D8 in 2005. My initial editing was from one beta VCR to another one. Then I bought a good Sony TR101 Hi8 camcorder, and soon bought a $1,300 EV-S3000 Sony Hi8 VCR that connected to the TR101 by wire, which gave some syncronization of the linear edits (about plus or minus 3 frames when it was happy). In 2004 I bought a powerful (for then) computer and Pinacle Studio 9, which with some upgrades is still what I've edited with until now. Some of all three formats of video have been digitized (or downloaded from the D8) as .avi using various hardware. I expect to complete all of that as .avi.
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/I guess, this will be a record-breaking Lorna-twitters-thread.. /
ok, from top-to-bottom:
• list of Apple-tested devices: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3290?viewlocale=en_US
(this list means 'tested'! usually, devices of same 'family' do work, as XS100/listed, XS110/XS130 not listed but supported too.
• DVD-corders = NoGo .. (please, Lorna, don't ask why .. you don't want it. period. )
• CMOS-probs are demonstrated and explained on my site: http://sites.google.com/site/karstenschluter/imovie09jellodemo
you will hardly get now-adays a non-CMOS consumer camcorder..
one simple (=in means of doesn't work everytime) workaround: set shutter-speed as short as possible.. IF device supports manual shutter speed...
• nothing replaces HiDef. period.
• .. but *HiDef ≠ HiDef* .. there are devices claiming 'FullHD', but using plastic-lenses, offering only digital-zoom, 'chip' is small as a pin-head, no native 1080-pixel res, PLUS low bitrates.
• compressing... bitrates define pic-quality. actual top-of-the-line: ~22Mbit/sec; 15-17 is fine; any under 10 is nonsense with FullHD ..
.. which uses cassettes, so I do not need to get another one of the same type.
so, why is the HC-52 on your list ?
all three devices on your list are SD - any reason for that?
imho, SD + flash-mem devices usually compress too much (=low bitrate)
what is your main delivery media? DVD? web? ... ?
a good source for tech. info is camcorderinfo.com
general 'Lorna advice':
there is no such thing as the perfect device.
make your own list of needs&want-haves; what about mic-in? what about battery charger? what about 'handling'/too big, too small? what about size of wallet? what about tripod, scuba-cases, wireless mics, lights...? ...
NO, Lorna, don't answer too me, answer yourself..

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