MAC AVCHD COLLECTION ARCHIVE

Manufactures won't be offering tape much longer IMO. Circuit City has 10 HD camcorders on display 1 uses a tape - once you shoot with solid state you understand why. And frankly, consumer HDV is a dying format. AIC import times ares similar, as are file sizes once imported. You can't play AVCHD files natively, but you also can't drag copy HDV files and play them on a Mac either - both have to be transfered somehow. With regard to iMovie, HDV is no easier to work with than AVCHD - iMovie works great with AVCHD imports. Steve-guessing: he may be worried about the performance of iMovie and FCE when working with native AVCHD. Indeed it is ironic that Steve sees AVCHD as the future, but his entry level editing software does not support those formats.

MAC AVCHD COLLECTION ARCHIVE

First your original tape serves as archive and you have no dealings with propriety stotage formats: on import via Firewire the material is stored in a format usable for your editing software.įor iMovie and FEC this still may involve a transcode, for FCP the transcoding is not necessary. Depending on your CPU juice you will need to transcode the format to anything usable for your editing software.įirewire was and is great. You need to create your own workflow for archiving. Formats beneficial to the camcorder suppliers, but more diffucult to work with for end-users.

The bad thing is that with USB transfers we are back in the dark-ages of supplier propriety storage formats. To some degree we manage.Ĭonsidering that all new tapeless camcorders use USB as transfer mechanism, dropping firewire is not such an illogical move. In many way we try to 'understand' and 'unravel' the mysteries of in this forum.

Mac avchd collection