Good Day All!

I have lurked on the board and website for quite some time and have decided to purchase an HF100 as my first major Prosumer camera. I am going to be using it for a new project were I will be producing a good amount of video for the web.

My question to you all is I am going to also be purchasing a MBP for doing the video editing on. I am going to need the portability of the laptop as well as I do not own a personal laptop right now.

Should the MBP be sufficient for the video editing (2.4 ghz Core Duo w/ 4 GB of Ram)? Also, is there a specific piece of software I should get for the video editing? The project is going to be well funded so I can purchase any software I need, but I wanted to check with the pro's here to see what software would be the best and be able to work with the HF100.

Thanks in advance for the advice.

Search "AVCHD software". Dual core with 4GB RAM should be fine.

I have been trying to search all day today but it has been broken for me:

I use both a MBP and MP, and they are both fantastic. My MBP is an older one with just the Core Duo and 2GB of RAM. Don't sweat it!

-steven

What type of software are you using to edit the video?

iMovie for family stuff, Final Cut Pro for work stuff.

You best buy a monitor calibration system before you start editing your footage.

Depending on how "pro" you're going to be, the basic setup should be fine.

I have a first-gen 2.0 GHz Core Duo MacBook Pro with 2 GB RAM. I keep my video on an external FireWire 800 hard drive (it's faster than the internal hard drive.)

Importing is slower than real-time, and final encoding can be slow; but the actual editing is perfectly good. I use iMovie exclusively. (I dabbled with FCE, but gave up. It's powerful, but I never really desired the extra power.)

If you hold off a month, new MacBook Pros are expected soon, and based on Intel's roadmaps, the new ones should have processors up to 2.8 GHz. (It's even possible that Apple will get the due-out-later quad-core notebook chips early; or an even faster 3.06 GHz chip like they just slapped in the iMac.)

I have both a MBP Core 2, 2.16 2GB Ram and a iMac 2.8 GHZ Core 2 extreme with 2 GB Ram. Both work well, the 2.8 is (naturally) faster but that's more noticeable when rendering final files. I STRONGLY recommend using a firewire 800 drive, they are so quick!

Though I recommend and prefer to bootcam into XP and edit in Vegas Pro (Native MTS file editing!!!) route... iMovie 08 (I know people hate it) works well and is SUPER easy to use and will produce decent video for simple stuff. However, If you're going to use (or need) FCE or FCP then I'd strongly urge you to look into the bootcamp / vegas route. Vegas is easier to use, handles more inputs and outputs/formats and in terms of *power userablility* is somewhere between FCE and FCP.

Can you all edit the highest resolution videos with your Core Duo processors? My (slow) core duo can handle the lower quality settings but struggles with the 2 highest.

I'm looking to buy a new computer or laptop and if your guys' MBP can edit these videos at the highest setting on the HF100, I might go for one of those.

What NLE are you using? Anyone try Adobe Premiere Pro through transcoding?