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Phelim,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks for that. I know that the iMacs are a bit limited on buses (the 800 and 400 FW share the same bus). My problem is getting a compatible HD file format from the Canon XH-A1 into a Mac so that it can be recognised and edited. I am not using a PCMCIA bus card in my PowerBook at present and tend to use only one FW device at at time on my PowerBook.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><div>On 24 Nov 2007, at 22:44, Phelim Lunny wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">'Am not sure about your problem there.... but you say you are moving over to a new iMac. <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <div>Just to note: you may be aware that IF you are using your PCMCIA bus in your present DV setup, you may be losing a bus by going to the iMac and, for instance, you may not want a camera and a firewire drive on the same (FW) bus.<br></div><div><div id="AOLMsgPart_0_cc1df583-20ed-42b1-a41f-772a8f79c071" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"><br> I am not quite sure what's best to do when HD acquisition is required. The Firestore will change file formats captured on the fly, but when I tried telling it to save to Quicktime HD (Apple intermediate file format) I couldn't read it properly and it gave me a 2 minute 300+ MB black screen movie. The audio was OK. <br> <br> I believe the camera captures to MPEG 1 when recording HD on tape (I had thought that format was dead!) <br> <br> I will be moving over to FCE 4 on an Intel iMac very soon, but for now: <br> <br> PowerBook G4 1.67 with 1.5 GB RAM running 1OS 0.4.11 <br> Quicktime pro with MPEG-2 plug in <br> iMovie 2,3,4 HD5 and 6 (really!) but not iMovie 08 </div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>