Why PC's but not MAC'S? Now I know there are seriously of fan boys
Now I know there are seriously of fan boys .and girls out at hand but why is a computer that is market so heavy on one a creative person's computer, not work with any camcorder except miniDV camcorders. Most HD consumer stratum cam's don't work with mac. so what's up?? Does anyone know which cam's work?
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i really didnt know that. but i connote. pc or mac?? mac if your a firm core music or video editor, but PC if your a gamer. hands down. i expect im a gamer.. so i say notebook. but im sure that you could get any camera to work near a mac. just entail the right emulator or driver.
You should contact the manufacture and ask them. You can't find any that work?
pssh. I've never have any problems editing consumer "HD" cam footage on my Mac. Just plug it in, select the proper settings surrounded by FCP and capture... Thats adjectives I have to do.
i've been working beside HDV for the past 8 months and haven't have any problems.
i would but a cam to suit the computer and not the other way around. Who say only miniDV camcorders work near Apple Macintosh computers?
A couple of clarifications:
The computer is not a MAC. MAC is a computer acronym for Media Access Control. The nickname for Apple's Macintosh computer hardware and software flash is "Mac".
HD is a video acronym for High Definition. If you are referring to hard drive base camcorders, that would be "HDD" (translated as Hard Disc Drive).
So... HDD (and flash memory) based camcorders journal using a highly compressed MPEG2 format. Regardless of the operating system you use, copy the files from the camcorder to the computer. In the covering of the Windows editing applications, *some* of them can deal near this directly; some can't. In the case of the Apple gear, you do obligation to download and install (free from Apple) a utility called StreamClip. Go to apple.com, click on Downloads, scour using "streamclip"... download an install. Open the MPEG2 file using StreamClip and export as DV. That DV profile will be usable by iMovie and FinalCut.
IF you are referring to "HD" as "high definition", I can assure you that Macs can repress hidef video just fine. I bowdlerize DV and HDV regularly. My Sony HDR-HC1 is most definitely shooting within 1080i high definition when I select that choice in the camcorder and verbs it into my Mac.
If you are referring to AVCHD encoded HD, personally, I don't bother near it for capturing video - though I do know that iMovie and FinalCut can operation with that format... it is simply too highly compressed. That translates into discarded information = reduced video quality. I may use it to amass a completed video project for export onto a BluRay disc, but using AVCHD as the first step of video acquisition and compressing that much is lately not a good opinion - which is probably why the professionals don't do it.