Hi, our family recently decided (30 minutes before bro's concert) to buy a mini dv camcorder to record his final concert.
Well, I connected the camcorder to my powerbook with firewire and launched imovie 6 and it asks me what format to save in. I tried both DV and MPEG-4 (two that sounded familiar). While importing, I noticed that the save file balloons in size, about a gig of space per minute recorded, is this normal?!
Anyways, my real question is, what is the optimal file type I should be saving the imovie project in for archival quality and to save hard drive space. Should I just burn it onto a DVD and just delete the project? Or should I burn a DVD copy and export imovie's clips as well?
I think were are going to return this camcorder and get a better one that has a higher effective CCD. Will that affect file sizes when I import them?
What a crazy strange new world of home movie making! I'm glad Apple's here to help, or else I probably would just explode from craziness... I'm already going mad trying to find the right camcorder, one that isn't too expensive and does good video in low light conditions most importantly.
We bought a Panasonic PV-GS36... But I think we're going to just buy the top of the line Panasonic PV-GS500 because it has 3 CCD. Unless there is any other better ones for the buck?
Thanks in advance!!!