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AVCHD rears its ugly head!
We’ve tried Voltaic….nothing…it just came out white. We’ve just completed our upgrade to FCP 6.0.1…still nothing. When I drag a .mt2s file into the log and transfer window it will not accept the file. At one point it was saying something about directory structures?
Could my audio video setting be to blame? I set it up to Capture Preset: HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec and Sequence Preset: Apple ProRes422 NTSC 48kHz.
We’re running a 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB SDRAM, MacBookPro. We also have a G5 but our research has concluded that it won’t support this conversion part of FCP because it is not Intel based.
Is it possible that we need to transfer directly from the camera? We had moved all the files off the camcorder and onto a USB 2.0 drive for storage because the camera belongs to the company president for personal use. Who can pass up HD video out of a helicopter flying over glaciers in Greenland? Especially when we’d like to make a small doc about his experience and global warming.
Glaciers people…c’mon! I need some help!!!! Pretty please!
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I’m not sure anyone has got AVCHD into FCS2. There is another way if your camera has an HDMI out, the camera uncompresses the signal through the HDMI port and you will need an HD-SDI capture card for your G5 together with a Convergent Design HD-Connect MI box and then you can transcode to DVC Pro HD.
I’m sure this wasn’t what you wanted the here but it will be the best transcode solution possible for that format.Good Luck
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[sararosepro] “We’ve tried Voltaic….nothing…it just came out white.”
That’s odd.
I’m on a lowly G5 DP 1.8 (PCI-X) and with Voltaic 1.02d in demo mode I am able to convert samples from a Sony HDR-SR1 to AIC.
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[Michael Palmer] “I’m not sure anyone has got AVCHD into FCS2”
Not according to this:
https://manuals.info.apple.com/en/FCP6_HD_and_Broadcast_Formats.pdf
I was just researching the same thing as I was considering a Panasonic AVCHD camera for home use. Seems pretty conclusive. I guess you’ve read this? Perhaps it’s something to do with the codec that FCP6 is transcoding to?
Good luck.
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We tried Voltaic in demo mode. We even asked for support. We’ve got the Quicktime Pro 7 point whatever. The audio shows up in the resulting movie but not the video. As I said it’s white. They don’t know why.
I’ve done everything that I’ve been able to find about this with no results. I searched this forum and people said it just went right in easily. ARGH!
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See this on Apple’s promo sites:
https://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
Expanded format support.
iMovie supports standard and high definition video, as well as the most popular formats, including DV, HDV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and even AVCHD.
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bogiesanThis is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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