If I'm not mistaken, you wouldn't be able to batch capture HD10/HD1/FX1 footage. Something about the timecode not going over the firewire cable, but again, I might be wrong here.

heath

<<<-- Originally posted by Heath McKnight : If I'm not mistaken, you wouldn't be able to batch capture HD10/HD1/FX1 footage. Something about the timecode not going over the firewire cable, but again, I might be wrong here.

heath -->>>

When I control playback and capture of my HD10 footage with DVHSCap, I see some numbers that resemble timecode. As far as I'm concerned that is timecode. My guess is that timecode isn't part of the HDV spec, but timecode is written on the tapes anyhow for some good reason. It shouldn't be a huge feat of engineering to associate those timecode like numbers with the footage, but of course I/B/P frame issues probably get in the way.

Given that, and my experience with iMovie 2 and 3, I'm guessing iMovie 5 will cut out the first (for sure) and last (maybe) GOP as it captures HDV. The reason for this is to hide the inherent audio lag in new clips (clips as iMovie understands them - everything between a start-and-stop-record).