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Having trouble with my JVC GZ-HD7U in FCP
Hi everyone.
Well I finally get my JVC Everio HD7U camera and my final cut Pro. only to find that FCP cannot reconize the file type that the camera uses. It is a hard disc camera. Has anyone else tryed to use this camera in FCP, what did you have to do to get it to work. I installed the cd that cme with it but when I open the folder it shows the file types as .TOD & Unix eXchange files. Im usin a macpro. any help would be GREATLY appreciated, thank you!! -
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Hi, I don’t know if you’re still looking for help, but I came across this on Amazon.com:
“If you are using Final Cut Pro or other professional non-linear editing programs on the Mac, you cannot use the camera’s native .TOD format, which is basically an MPEG inside the .TOD container. Forget about following JVC’s instructions: they are too time-consuming and don’t allow batch processing. The easiest conversion method I’ve found requires two freeware programs: The VLC media player, and MPEG Streamclip, both available on the Apple Website (and elsewhere). You’ll first need to use the VLC player to convert the .TOD into a .TS file, which takes seconds (you are only changing the container format to MPEG TS, not actually changing compression). Once you’ve changed the .TOD file to a .TS file, you can use MPEG Streamclip to change to a variety of file formats that Final Cut Pro can recognize. Of course since you are recompressing the file at this point, expect this to take far longer than the first step.
While you can use a variety of compressions, I use DVCPRO60. Files compressed using DVCPRO60 can be viewed in Final Cut immediately without a need to render. The quality of the final DVC PRO .MOV file seems identical to the original .TOD file.”
Curious to see what you think of the Optical Image Stabilization on that camera. Here’s the link, plus more posts:
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