"Native" MPEG-4 Video Editing

[michael666]

I'm considering buying a Sanyo Xacti C4, which lets me record MPEG-4 video on a SD memory card. I want to edit those movies with my Mac, so my question is, what kind of editing can I do natively, that is, without having to decode and reencode the MPEG-4 data? And what kind of software is there for this purpose?

[cb911]

depending on what sort of complexity you want to do with your editing...

QuickTime Pro can chop and paste clips together, i don't know about iMovie or FCP, never tried that myself...

[MisterMe]

depending on what sort of complexity you want to do with your editing...

QuickTime Pro can chop and paste clips together, i don't know about iMovie or FCP, never tried that myself...Anything that you can play in the QuickTime Pro player can be brought into iMovie. MPEG-4 is an open format from Apple. Michael666 should have no trouble editing his little video clips in iMovie.