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Question: will it work with Mac? I bought a cannon and jvc last year and neither of them worked with final cut or imovie, will it work with my mac?
Document: I researched like crazy and settled on this camcorder, bought it in early Mach, 2010 from Amazon. I wanted a good HD camcorder to video my son in his last season of high school baseball. The HD quality is superb when camcorder is connected to my Samsung HD TV.
Although the BP-819 is a larger battery, it's almost flush with the back of the camera when installed.Of course, the included software is trash. I installed it for the sake of reviewing it, but really, if you're looking to spend this kind of money on a camera, you owe it to yourself to spend another couple hundred on decent video editing software. As a Mac user, iMovie does a passable job, but takes forever to do its various conversions from AVCHD.
I am a year long owner of the last generation Canon HG10 HD camcorder. I have used it to shoot high definition video of several events both indoors and outdoors, and it has performed admirably. It produces high quality DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, and it outputs HD directly to my 1080p HD television through component and HDMI connections (the camera only outputs and records up to 1080i though).
Yes. Or is this Adobe's problem? Yes. I blame both. I blame Canon because the software that they provide with your purchase does not extract videos (only the pictures). I blame Adobe (and others) because they are supposed to be the best. I blame both because after one year - neither has fixed the problem so don't count on quick resolutions.
It seems really good. I really like not having to use tapes. It takes about the same time to capture the footage into Final Cut Pro, though. (You can't just drag and drop.) But this is okay. The picture is great. It does pretty well in low light, but not as well as the PD-150 (a $3000 camera) or the TRV-950 (a $1700 camera - no longer available).
:-)  I connected the camera to my mac via the mini usb-usb cable. Once connected, power up the camera and it will prompt you if you are connecting to a dvd burner or a computer/printer....select computer/printer and you are told to plug the power adapter in after which the camera creates thumbnails internally and mounts as a usb drive called Canon on the mac....there is also a NO NAME volume mounted which has the same information in it.
I called Canon and they basically said "that's how the camera is supposed to work." What?! Thanks Canon. Go with the Sony consumer HDs. I've never had any problems with them.
OR: (expensive choice) Mac Pro Quad-Core (or 8 Core), with 3GB SDRAM (or more).
A few weeks ago, my wife and I decided to go back and look at the videos that we made of our children hitting their milestones (crawling, walking, etc.). As we began to watch, we both realized that the video from our old camera (which was high-end when we bought it) looked terrible! It was shaky, dim, and the sound quality was very poor.
Ease of use - There are a number of usability features that I really like. First and foremost this is a very easy to use camera since my 8 year old niece picks it up and takes excellent video with it. The improvement that I really value over the HF10 is the dual shot mode where you can take a picture while you are shooting video.
Answer: If you have an Intel based Mac you will be able to handle the AVCHD codec.  If you have an earlier PowerPC Mac (like the dual G5 I have) you will have to transcode to MPEG video to edit.   This is a time consuming process as I learned when borrow an AVCHD camera from a family member.  More information is available on video forums regarding this concern.