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I started using an HD camera to compliment my two Mini-DV cameras. Unfortunately on about the 10th usage, the person handling that camera dropped and broke it.
Since the camera no longer worked, I had to send the Mini-DV tapes to an outside facility to have them converted for playback on Mini-DV (even though they were shot on Mini-DV tape, they would not playback on a Mini-DV deck - you need an HD deck/camera for that).
Tapes shot in either HD or mini-DV can be edited for either usage (with trade-offs) using Final Cut Pro or other such editing programs.
I am holding off on purchasing an HD camera until I am ready to buy 2 or 3 of them at the same time, since I am finding that editing the tapes from different formats presents some technical challenges and is slowing down the editing process.
If you are shooting with one camera, I think you may as well go with HD, since then you will be among the first to have HD DVDs as the demand increases.
ADG Webmaster
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