Can someone suggest a digital camcorder to use to take home movies and download to Apple iMovie?

Question

I would prefer a hard drive based camcorder

Answer 1

I own the Canon HG10 High Definition Camcorder.

I was using a Windows laptop before to edit it. The process takes FOREVER.

First you have to upload the AVCHD (fast loading type of High Definition file) to a program they provided. You can't do anything it in; the titles are ugly, loading takes forever, lags every time you drag the bottom panels and scroll bars... Then after exporting each individual clip, you have to drag that file which is really low quality already, into ANOTHER video converter. But I won't even go into that. True you can purchase Sony Vegas which works with AVCHD, but why waste that money when you can do it on iMovie for free :)

If you haven't read the above c**p, you can skip to here.

The Canon HG10 works Perfectly with the iMovie application. After unpacking my laptop, 15 minutes is all it took for me to upload video into iMovie, edit video (cut clips; original clips are 5x time of final product), add 1 nice title, music...etc.

you can check it out here; the quality of the Camcorder on iMovie is great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDQgKJofV...

Hope I helped,

Jeremy