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Q: HD Camcorder in Aperture

Are there any camcorders that are compatible with Aperture 3?

 

I fully understand that iMovie is the proper tool to use for videos, but it just seems to make more sense for me to keep all related content in the same place. For example, if I'm shooting my son's birthday party, I want to have all photos and videos in the same project in Aperture ( and eventually upload to flickr and share with friends and family).

 

Specifically, I am looking for a camcorder that will record in an aperture friendly format. I have a DSLR which does this spectacularly, but I'd like to buy a dedicated camcorder for practicality.I should mention that allthough ultra portable camcorders seem to do this off the bat, I am looking for a higher quality video output.

 

any ideas?

Posted on Mar 14, 2012 12:49 PM

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  • by Keith Barkley,

    Keith Barkley Keith Barkley Mar 14, 2012 1:38 PM in response to doveq
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    Mar 14, 2012 1:38 PM in response to doveq

    Aperture will certainly not be much help *importing* these videos.

     

    Does this help?

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4025

     

    Aperture is really digital camera centric.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Mar 14, 2012 3:57 PM in response to doveq
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    Mar 14, 2012 3:57 PM in response to doveq

    I think that the  paradigm imagined for someone shooting HD on a Camcorder is that they are shooting to edit. Therefore the imagined workflow would be import to editor, process, export to compressed file, import that to Aperture.

     

     

    Regards

     

     

    TD

  • by Frank Caggiano,

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Mar 14, 2012 7:11 PM in response to doveq
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    Mar 14, 2012 7:11 PM in response to doveq

    One other thing to keep in mind if you go forward with this, if you plan on doing any editing on the videos after they are in Aperture using the video editing software as Aperture's external video editor (see Aperture->Preferences->Export; External video editor) the video files must be managed, that is stored in the Aperture library.

     

    Video files stored as referenced  masters will not be seen by the external editor. What this means is the size of your Aperture library could grow really large. While the absolute size of the library won't affect performance it will have an impact on backups and library repairs and of course on the amount of disk space it takes up on the HD.

     

    Again having the video masters in as managed is only required if you will be editing them externally but it is something to consider.

     

    regards

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Mar 14, 2012 11:41 PM in response to Frank Caggiano
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    Mar 14, 2012 11:41 PM in response to Frank Caggiano

    Video files stored as referenced  masters will not be seen by the external editor. What this means is the size of your Aperture library could grow really large.

    Even worse, if you send your videos from Aperture to Quicktime 7 or iMovie as external editor, Aperture will create a new master video file of the video for the edited version, so you will duplicate the amount of storage required.

    And to get any interesting edits back from iMovie (like stabilization) you will have to create a project in iMovie and export the new video, and you will end up with a third file. It really would be less wasteful, to use your Video editor to manage the videos and then browse them in Aperture using the Media Browser if you need your videos in a slideshow.

  • by doveq,

    doveq doveq Mar 15, 2012 7:48 AM in response to doveq
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    Mar 15, 2012 7:48 AM in response to doveq

    I guess I never really gave iMovie a fair chance. I haven't factored duplicates and editing from aperture, and referenced vs managed etc. either. Truth is I never really had to.

     

    90% of my clips are under 2 minutes and I either keep them or delete them with very little editing, but I can imagine that the whole dynamic of shooting video with a dedicated camcorder is totally different.

     

    Are there any camcorder brands that are more mac friendly? I was thining of buying the Panasocnic TM90, but the local best buy was sold out and only has the Sony CX190 in stock.