Everyone who has been recently considering buying a new video camera
should be pleased by the new iMovie '08. It now natively supports
the MPEG-2 and AVCHD formats used by the latest hard disk equipped
video cameras like the the JVC Everio series and the latest Panasonic
and Sony HDD cameras (and some new mini-DVD cameras which use AVCHD
as well) .
http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
Looks like it does still need to convert on import, but at least we
can do away with having to use other software to convert it into a
format iMovie understands. I'm hoping that it is a general Quicktime
feature update so Quicktime Player and other Quicktime compatible
software will be able to natively work with such formats as well.
Looks like a very major upgrade all round.
hurrah!
-Mart
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Martin Hill
email: mart "at" ozmac.com
homepages: http://mart.ozmac.com
Mb: 0401-103-194 (new) hm: (08)9314-5242
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