I have a JVC HD GZ-HD3 and while I like the video quality and really enjoy using the camera I'm having a devil of a time figuring out how to get it to work in IMovie and FCE. I have an older version of IMovie that doesn't work with .TOD files and FCE doesn't handle .TOD files.
I've tried almost everything, it seems like. I installed the quicktime thing it came with, nothing happened. I bought the quicktime component from apple, nothing happened. I upgraded to quicktime pro, nothing happened. When quicktime tries to open a file it says "The movie contains an incorrect duration".
Mpeg streamclip will convert the files into all sorts of stuff, most of it that IMovie 6 will work with. Of course, if you convert to DV, what's the point of having an HD camera?
FCE refuses to see the camera when I try to capture to it and when I put the dv or aic files into FCE it says, "unrendered" when I try to edit it.
*This newbie is very frustrated*