I am buying a Mac Mini to use iMovie and Final Cut Pro. What HD camcorder should i buy?
1. what ram is the least needed?
2. my budget for the HD camcorder is below 700 dollars.
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Setting the expectation:
The MacMini is an ENTRY LEVEL computer. High definition video is ADVANCED video. FinalCutPro is ADVANCED video.
Will it work? Yes. But no fair claiming "slow response" after you do this. 4 gig would be better (and max out the MacMini). An iMac has a faster CPU and can do more RAM.
You should also have an external drive (500 gig minimum) for the FinalCut video project files. HDV format video uses about 44 gig of computer hard drive space per hour of inported HDV video and you do not want to slow things further because the project files access is fighting with the operating system’s trying to get to virtual memory (on the hard drive that the start-up operating system is on).
You need to buy a 4-pin to 6-pin firewire cable to connect the camcorder’s DV port to the computer’s firewire port. A Firewire cable is not included in the box with the camcorder.
1. at least 2gb of ram
2. and hv20 or hv30. is a very good compact hd camcorder. there isn’t much of a difference between the two so i would go with the 20
a JVC with an internal hard drive of atleast 30GB and make sure it has a fire wire port, but all new JVC’s have a firewire port so your good there.
Here’s a good model you may consider:
http://cgi.ebay.com/JVC-GZ-MG330-HDD-CAMCORDER-30-GB-HARD-DISK-CASE-BLUE_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ65Q3a12Q7c66Q3a2Q7c39Q3a1Q7c72Q3a570Q7c240Q3a1318Q7c301Q3a1Q7c293Q3a1Q7c294Q3a50QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem3ef59ac146QQitemZ270408532294QQptZCamcordersQ5fProfessionalQ5fVideoQ5fCamerasQQsalenotsupported
it’s equipped with HD and is compatible with all macintosh/apple computers.
I’ve used this model an imac before, works excellent.