So if we buy a Hard disk or flash memory video cam, how do we archive our
footage?
Will it burn to a DVD and still be usable/importable?

It was great being able to put the miniDV tape in the desk drawer in case I
ever wanted to go back to the raw footage.

Ta
Rod Blitvich


on 8/8/07 9:05 PM, Susan Hastings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Good news, I have an AVCHD video camera now.
> On 08/08/2007, at 11:24 AM, Martin Hill wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> ------------------------------------
>> 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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