New HD camcorder

[MK 9707]

Ok, this has probably been covered a few times.... I currently have a minidv camcorder that is going, and need to update to an HD model (looking at cannon HF20, like the quality of my old Elura70). I am wondering if I can download the HD movies into adobe premier7 and edit them as I currently do? I would like to keep a copy of the higher quality format on my hard drive until I get a blue ray burner/player and either burn a lower quality copy to a regular dvd or watch off of the camera for now. Wondering if that would work? I am not very technically savvy. Thanks for any advice/help.

[Baldrick]

Nope, you need an editor with avchd support like latest Premiere CS4.

[edDV]

Ok, this has probably been covered a few times.... I currently have a minidv camcorder that is going, and need to update to an HD model (looking at cannon HF20, like the quality of my old Elura70). I am wondering if I can download the HD movies into adobe premier7 and edit them as I currently do? I would like to keep a copy of the higher quality format on my hard drive until I get a blue ray burner/player and either burn a lower quality copy to a regular dvd or watch off of the camera for now. Wondering if that would work? I am not very technically savvy. Thanks for any advice/help.

You mean convert to DV format? An HDV (e.g. Canon HV20/30/40) camcorder will do that in hardware and allow a normal DV transfer over IEEE-1394.

For AVCHD, you will need to externally decode h.264 and rescale to DV or other compatible format. You will have great difficulty doing that with a P4 2GHz. You won't even be able to play the raw AVCHD video at 1x.

[MK 9707]

Thanks for the help, maybe it is time for an early christmas: new computer, software, etc..