Native HDV editing question

[computerjunkie]

Can someone tell me a little about editing HDV natively in FCP? I am aware of all the ins and outs (no pun intended) of AVCHD being imported as AIC in all the mac apps...and even HDV being imported as AIC in FCE. But since FCP will do HDV natively, can someone talk about that?

I did a search and about all I could find was that it was "painful". Painful how? How would it compare to AVCHD imported to AIC?

Which is less painful, and what is the cause of the pain? Are we talking import times, file sizes, cpu power, render times??? I know also that AVCHD imported as AIC make HUGE files, but how does this compare with editing native HDV in FCP?

Regards,

G.
Pain Specialist

 

[ppc_michael]

I edit native HDV all the time on my Macbook Pro. I have no problems with it at all, I think people just whine a bunch.

If you have a bunch of effects applied to video, render times can get kind of long, but that's it.

 

[yoak]

rendering times are quite long with hdv, but as previous poster I edit hdv on my iMac without any problems. It's the first 24 and it's 2 over 2 years old

 

[NeoMayhem]

It is pretty slow, but the files are a lot smaller. AIC will be the same size if its from HDV or AVCHD as long as the resolutions are the same.