[Joon Pontén]

Hi, I just bought a Panasonic HVX200 and a FireStore100 with firmware 4 to go with it. Last night I documented a play at the theatre – but the FS100 disk suddenly stopped recording so I had to make a panic switch to tape mode.

But now, for some reason, it is very hard to get this tape into FCP, best shot so far is to have DVCPRO control and NTSC 48kHz import setting – but when it is in the computer it appears to be in very low resolution, and also streched: there is a letterbox cutting off top and bottom of the picture and frame seems to be stretched out to widescreen giving the contents a distorted look…

Am I doing something wrong here? This is my first NTSC cam (old cam is Canon XM1 which was never as quirky to connects as this one). Are there codec settings I should change?

Checking the Panasonic it seems to be in 480i/60i mode.

[Joon Pontén]

Is there really no way to get around the conversion, which takes some time? I would typically prefer to work in the format it was shot in, and as it’s really not a gigantic dataflow I would think FCP could handle that?

What IS Apple OpenDML JPEG – a motion JPEG flavour or…? And why can QT Player play it without any problems, while FCP throws the red bar in my face?

Would be grateful for any clues on this, as I will be starting a project soon…