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I just bought a Canon HG20. It works great and I've had no problems whatsoever editing/importing movies in iMovie.
However, when I checked the status of my hard disk I notice that the one hour of video I've taken so far has consumed 70GB of disk space! After doing some research online I've learned that iMovie converts the compressed AVCHD files into a proprietary Apple format at about 5 times the size.
Is there anyway to edit/store/work with these AVCHD files directly on my Mac without it exploding the file sizes? I mean, a 500GB drive will give me about 5 hours at this rate. That's brutal!
However, when I checked the status of my hard disk I notice that the one hour of video I've taken so far has consumed 70GB of disk space! After doing some research online I've learned that iMovie converts the compressed AVCHD files into a proprietary Apple format at about 5 times the size.
Is there anyway to edit/store/work with these AVCHD files directly on my Mac without it exploding the file sizes? I mean, a 500GB drive will give me about 5 hours at this rate. That's brutal!