You guys didn't really add HDV support. Boo!
You added a FireWire input routine. One that, for some reason, can't run on laptops!!! If it's because you can't convert in RT -- the solution is double-buffering. iMovie can do it! This is not rocket science.
By the way, converting HDV to something else not only is NOT necessary -- it doesn't improve quality or present quality loss -- it causes a huge waste of disk space and increases the needed disk bandwidth.
FCP, MC, Edius, Vegas, and Premiere all support REALTIME native HDV editing and have done so for YEARS. It can't be that hard if $99 Ulead and Pinnacle do it.
PS: If you don't buy FCP -- how do you get ProRes? And, if you don't have ProRes -- what can one convert HDV to?
If you can't fully support HDV in the spring of 2008 -- 4 years late -- how can you support AVC-Intra now and AVCHD in the fall of 2008. And, of course, XDCAM EX and XDCAM 422 HD? If we can't edit these format's NATIVELY in M100 -- the game seems over for M100.
Best Regards,
Steve Mullen
Digital Video Consulting--Las Vegas
www.mindspring.com/~d-v-c
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