Hey Guys, I recently purchased an HD video camera. I have a couple of questions. Do I have to buy a bluray writer for my wife’s Mac in order to get HD home videos? Will anything really fit on a regular dvd if it was HD? Do you guys that own one always record on the highest resolution?
What kind of camera did you buy? Mac comes with a program that you can upload and edit your videos with. Are you trying to get it on a blu ray disc to play on your blu ray player?
Firstly, if you are looking to view it on a blu-ray player or something, then yes it will require you to get a blu-ray writer... Size of the video depends on how long your video is... But if you're just burning it to watch on other computers or something and the size is small enough to fit on a DVD, you can do that and still maintain HD status (which also depends on how you burn it). You can't however, watch that in HD if you play it on a DVD player. To answer your second question, it just depends on the occasion and also the actual event of what I am doing with the camera... High res is always nice, but it does take a lot of space and so for things that aren't really too formal or aren't going to be saved, I don't use high res all the time.
Cannon HF200 I am not sure how to answer your second question. I would like the video to look better than our old video camera so I assume you have to use a higher resolution. Doesn't that mean i can't fit to much on a standard dvd?
Where do you buy your high capacity memory cards from. It came with an 8 gig but that is not going to be enough?
ItsMyFault already answered the part you were confused about. For the hc memory cards Amazon is your friend. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?u...field-keywords=transcend+sdhc+class+6&x=0&y=0
Most HD cams record in AVCHD. With that said, you DO NOT necessarily need to buy a Blu-Ray writer. Get a copy of Final Cut Express for Mac and that will allow you to write AVCHD content onto DVD for you to play in your Blu-Ray player. Keep in mind you'll only get around 30 minutes on a disc if you take this route.
I recommend the purchase of one of these (and perhaps an external terabyte drive): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136325&Tpk=wdtv If your camcorder films to a SD card, just adapt the SD card and plug it into the USB port of that device I just linked to.
