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Panasonic TM700 60fps Final Cut Pro
I recently bought the Panasonic TM700 camcorder. Other than using the time lapse feature, I am pretty much only interested in recording in
1080/60p, and I am just trying to get my head straight about the workflow. I have purchased “Clipwrap2” so that I can wrap the MTS file to a .MOV (this is a lossless step).1. Should my first step be to convert all of the MTS files to be .MOV files as I move them from the camera to my hard-drive?
2. The resulting .MOV is still 60p and plays on Macs rather slowly (just a limit of Quicktime on Macs). So then I would need to transcode to 1080p using 30p ProRes LT (or would you recommend ProRes 422 ?). What is the difference between these two flavors of ProRes, and should I convert them to ProRes using ClipWrap2, or should I do it as I ingest the files into FCP?
3. Now the clips can be easily edited in Final Cut Pro and viewed in Quicktime. I read in a forum about this workflow that said that I could make a custom sequence that is set at 59.94fps. You can display the timecode as either 60fps or as 60@30. Right-click in the timecode display of the viewer or the canvas. So I would then import each clip into a new project where I could right-click on the timecode so that I can manually set it to be 60fps. Does this mean that I can set the set the timecode display for each clip in the viewer (using the timecode display for the sequence in the canvas timecode display)? I ask because some clips my be 30fps and other 60fps.
Does this workflow appear correct? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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Actually, this consumer camcorder can record to 1920 x 1080 50p / 60p (h.264 at 28 Mbs in an mpeg2 transport stream – outside the spec of avchd): see here:
Please be advised however that editing these files smoothly in the native codec will require Sony Vegas or PPCS5 to edit 1080 50/60p (or Edius will edit the files natively in 1080 50i, 25p, 720 50p, etc sequence) or and a powerful PC/Mac.
You could also transcode to DNxHD/ProRes (preferred editing codec) using Clipwrap 2, VoltaicHD, AME.
1080 50p/60p footage can not currently be ingested by FCP 7 nor MC5 (both however will smoothly import the 1080 50i files if there is no 1080 50p footage recorded onto the card).
Also remember that there is no bluray 1080 50p for instance. If you want to retain the motion characteristics then you could output to 720 50p. Otherwise it would be 1080 24p or 50i! HTH
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