anyone recommend a hard drive camcorder for mac?

[Lurchama]

HI, I am sure someone must have asked, but I have just returned a sony dcr-sr32e as I couldnt get it to download to imovie. Is it because it is the cheap end of the HD cameras, I thought the mac would just have seen it as a spare drive but no such luck. I dont want to go back to my trusty minidv, but would welcome any help from anyone who has sorted the HD issue, maybe a panasonic or everio? anyway, all suggestions welcome

 

[Cory Cooper]

I personally don't like the HD cameras. They eat battery power way too fast. A nice DV tape camera would be my choice.

I haven't heard about any that are better than others though, sorry.

C

 

[Kyomii]

The battery on my HD Sony lasts for up to 9 hours with higher capacity battery, and about 4 hours with the supplied one - they have improved incredibly

This is the same camera as mine. Please see here for more information on what to do and what you need.


https://www.mac-help.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3018


As for other HD camcorders, the best thing to do would be to research via google, as people have different preferences for different makes

 

[Lurchama]

thanks both for response, still working on this

 

[Kyomii]

Technically, any are compatible, even if USB, it is the software such as iMovie that may not be.

If the camera records in Mpeg2 and/or is muxed, and uses 5.1 for the sound, this is when you will find iMovie will not work.

To solve that, it will cost you a tenner for this software:

http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/tryit.php