Of course, they can ACQUIRE from an HDV device via FW -- unless you are using a laptop. But, you are NOT capturing HDV which is what one needs to do. Nor, can one edit HDV natively -- let alone multiple streams in realtime. Can't match FCP or MC. In fact, one can buy FCS1 for a few hundred and get REAL HDV support in 5.1.4 -- plus get all the other Apple Tools. Who in their right mind is going to spend nearly $1000 to so much less?
In any case, this is not the support of HDV that matches the HDV support provided by ALL NLE's. It is a only a wasteful and totally unneeded CONVERSION of MPEG-2 to another codec that requires far more space and disk bandwidth. No VIDEO INFORMATION is in the converted file that is not in the far more compact HDV file. So the time for the conversion is totally wasted.
Best Regards,
Steve Mullen
Digital Video Consulting--Las Vegas
www.mindspring.com/~d-v-c
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