In the interest of anyone looking for a HD Camcorder (a probably 1:1 mapping with those that have a new baby), I'd like to advertise this fact -
The Panasonic HDC-SD9 is a great little camcorder. It is currently the world's smallest 1080p camcorder and the video quality is pretty good. However, it does have one big gotcha - you cannot import/edit the video on your Mac or your PC in any straightforward manner.
It crashes iMovie. I had previously tested iMovie '08 with shot on a HDC-SX5, from Panny's previous generation and everything worked great. The SD9 has something different about its video that causes iMovie to crash while importing.
Today, I tried importing on my Windows Vista machine using Sony Vegas and that program went into a hang as well. I'm inclined to believe that this is clearly a problem with the camera.
The video does play back great on my PS3. I think we'll stick it out and see if Apple and/or Panasonic fix this issue.
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