I am looking to buy a new camcorder, the Sony CX550V. It will be my first AVCHD camcorder. From what I understand, working with AVCHD on a Mac is a total nightmare. iMovie barely supports it. So, I had an idea.... Why not go into Windows 7 via Parallels and use one of the award winning AVCHD programs like Pinnacle to transfer my movies to Mac (via the virtual machine). Can it be done? The only problem I see is that my Mac has 4GB of memory and it is a 2.8GHZ. I run 2MB memory for my virtual machine. Hopefully that will be enough to do the job. Anyone else working with AVCHD through a virtual machine and does it work well?
