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HD), and one in the middle (Final Cut Express) Whereas iMovie HD and Final Cut Express rely on the Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC), Final Cut Pro version 5 and higher allows clean editing of nativi HDV .m2t files.
Final Cut Pro also has excellent integration with! DVCPRO HD, which can be captured via FireWire (also known as iLink or IEEE 1394) and edited asi it were captured with an uncompressed HD card.
Also note, Apple regularly provides small updates to Final Cut Pro to support new camcorders. For example, a recent update was issued to support JVC’s new camcorders with 720p24 modes. Make sure you check updates regularly.
Lumiere HD
If your system is a bit slow, try a proxy editor, like Lumiere HD, which captures and demuxes (splits) the audio and video in HDV, and allows you to select a different video codec. I recommend using DV (digital video). It can often times support new 1 cameras before Apple does.

• DVCPRO HD: An HD codec developed by Panasonic that includes both 1 080i/p and 720p, but when going to tape or P2 card, the 1920×1080 signal is down-sampled to 1 280×1 080, and 1 280×720 is down-sampled to 960×720. This keeps the overall “size” of the HD signal small. Upon output to TV, DVD, etc., the signal goes back to its original sizes.
• P2: Professional Plug-In; a storage device developed by Panasonic as a low-cost alternative to a more expensive DVCPRO HD tape deck. Each card is about the size of a credit card and can store, as of early 2007, up to 8 gigabytes (GB) of video each. Lowel lights serve documentary, corporate, news, independent, student and feature filmmakers “round the globe with speed, agility, economy and adaptability. It’s what you’d expect from the world leader in location lighting.

With so many high definition camcorders now on the market, along with Panasonic’s DVCPRO HD becoming more affordable, as well as the new AVCHD camcorders, the choice on which camcorder is right for you can be a difficult one. We break down the camcorders to help with that difficult decision.

MPEG-4
Sanyo’s handheld VPC-HDla Xacti Media Camera is the entry-level camcorder in terms of price, and offers 720p video via MPEG-4 compression, captured to SD memory cards, which are sold separately. This small camcorder can fit easily in your hand or pocket, which makes travel easy.

HDV
The JVC GR-HD1 was the first low-cost HD cam I corder to hit the market, in the spring of 2003.11 is a single-CCD camcorder that records in 720p f resolution to Mini DV tape, which is standard orj all HDV camcorders.
Canon introduced the 1-CMOS HV10 ($1,499| as a low-cost consumer-oriented and handheld I HDV counterpart to its higher-end HDV camcorffl ers. This camcorder can record in 60i, along witrl 30F and 24F, which the high-end units can do. The “F” means full frame, and is very similar to how progressive video works. There is also a j native 1920xl080-size sensor. At the time of pun

There is a school of video asset organization that is comprised of a series of shoeboxes in the closet filled with random tapes. Hopefully, each tape has a label, probably hastily scribbled upon in the field. It doesn’t take long before such a system becomes unwieldy, reaching the point where locating clips takes up more time than editing.
Square Box Systems has come to the rescue with CatDV Pro. CatDV Pro creates and manages a searchable database of every clip that’s ever been digitized into your system. It can capture the clip’s metadata and thumbnail images, as well as a highly compressed preview movie. This allows you to view and store your assets, once your original footage has been taken offline.  The first step in organizing your footage is digitizing it into your computer. There are two ways of doing this with CatDV Pro. The first and most intuitive is to capture the entire tape in your editing software, then import that file into CatDV Pro. The second is to capture from within CatDV Pro itself. (This will require a third party VDIG driver if you’re on a PC, or the optional Live Capture Plus if you’re on a Mac.)
Bringing in a full length clip from Final Cut Pro was a snap, and the file imported easily into CatDV. The clips automatically separate into scenes using DV time stamp detection, or using CatDV’s own visual frame referencing algorithms. The DV detection was spot on, and the visual detection was remarkably close, requiring a tweaking of a few frames to get just right. However, it’s a huge help if you’re cataloging footage from analog sources. CatDV Pro can import and manipulate any QuickTime media codec, including QuickTime flavors of HDV and DVCPRO HD.