• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Moving up to HD

  Posted by Bruce Breidbart on January 11, 2011 at 9:54 pm

  After 10 years of faithful service my Sony dv camcorder died of natural causes.
  I’m running a MacPro 2 x 2.66 dual core Intel, w 8gigs of ram & FCS 2 . It’s time
  for a new HD camcorder . I’ve read a lot of good reviews about Panasonics TM700
  but have some questions that this forum might be able to answer. The TM700
  can record full HD 1080/60P, very impressive untill you want to edit in FCP6.
  I also read under it’s compression infor. that MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (AVCHD compliant,except for 60P mode)
  sounds troublesome, if I knew what this means or how it affect me.
  I’ve read that someone has used “ClipWrap” to rewrap to a quicktime file, I suppose FCP would like to see a Pro Res file.
  I’ve also read that 1080/60P needs alot under the hood, (a fast CPU).
  Question 1, is my aging MacPro up to the task, knowing that I’ll need lots of
  storage space, (already bought an internal 2 terribye hard drive).
  Question 2 , I’ve read this camera records 1080/24P , but in the small fine
  print it says that 24P is converted & recorded as 60i,I’m a little confused.
  Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of 1080/24P ?
  My last question, I need to do a little more research but this camera records to SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards, what’s the differece ?
  I know it’s a lot to ask, but I have so many questions.

  thanks in advace.
  Bart

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  Tom Wolsky replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tom Wolsky

  January 11, 2011 at 11:13 pm

  1. Yes.

  2. It’s 24 over 29.97 with pulldown added. In my view it’s pretty pointless.

  3. Different types of cards. SDHC is probably the most common. Use a good quality card.

  All the best,

  Tom

  Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

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