The infinite wisdom of Canon

I am an amateur filmmaker. Or at least I pretend to be. I sit around and I talk about making movies and how I have a ton of ideas for movies and how I really want to make them and then I go read comics or sleep. So I suppose I'm more an amateur filmmaker in mind than in action.

But that's all going to change. As a graduation gift, my parents purchased me the Canon GL2. The Canon GL2 is, as far as I can tell from the Canon website, the second best miniDV camera on the market. Not the top of the line, but the one right under that one. This is a nice-ass camera. With this camera I can finally become the amateur filmmaker I already consider myself to be.

So I went to my brother's tonight to play around with it. He has a Powerbook, which is a nice-ass computer and what I'm thinking about getting to go along with my nice-ass camera. My plan was to hook my camera up to his Powerbook and to screw around in iMovie with editing and other stuff. I mostly wanted to see how fast the processor on the Powerbook would react to my editing digital video.

So I hooked up the Canon GL2 to the Powerbook.
And I went into iMovie to take the footage from the camera and put it onto the computer so I could edit it.
And nothing happened.

Further investigation revealed to me the problem.

The Canon GL2 is not compatible with iMovie. Canon, in their infinite wisdom, decided one day that the GL2 should only be compatible with Final Cut Pro.

Who the fuck does this? More importantly, who the fuck does this and doesn't tell anyone at all about it? Nowhere in any literature that I read about the Canon GL2 did it say, "The Canon GL2 is only compatible with Final Cut Pro, so get ready to pony up $500 or more to buy Final Cut Pro if you want to be able to FUCKING USE YOUR CAMERA." Of course, I didn't spend the two grand for the GL2 because I wanted to use it. I thought I'd just put it in the corner and look at it and say, "Wow, that's a nice-ass camera." These fucking fucktards. iMovie is standard with all Macs, so does it NOT just make sense that the GL2 would work with it? I know it's a good camera, THAT'S THE IDEA. If anything, this camera should be compatible with EVERYTHING. That seems to make sense to me. It makes sense that, perhaps, a lesser camera wouldn't be compatible with Final Cut Pro (as Final Cut Pro is a nice-ass filmmaking program), but it simply does NOT make ANY logical sense to me that this camera, which is the second best camera you can get, does not work with a program that is standard across the board on Macs. Fucking. Fucktards.

That's all.