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1. Importing Video > Importing from DVD Camcorders
Importing from DVD Camcorders
In general, DVD camcorders are a mess. They’re fussy, they take a long time to “initialize” and “finalize” a blank DVD, each disc doesn’t hold very much footage, the recorded discs may not have a very long lifespan in your closet, and the miniature DVDs can actually damage your Mac.
If that’s what you’ve got, though, the routine for importing video from a DVD camcorder—at this writing, the most popular format on the market—is exactly the same as it is for other tapeless camcorders. The instructions begin on Automatic Scene Detection.
There are, however, a few caveats:
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iMovie can’t import video from DVD camcorders that use the AVCHD video format (AVCHD). Unfortunately, that pretty much rules out all the high-definition DVD camcorders.
