[Matt Heaven]

I wish someone would answer your question Detlef…. I’m wondering this as well. Thanks everyone for your responses even though it’s been months later. I accidentally forgot to check up on this thread before posting another one up, however I have more questions in the other post too 🙂

[Matt Heaven]

This thread is quite entertaining to say the least. There’s a ton of technical info that just blew my brain all over the wall behind me here.

So after reading all of this stuff…. I still don’t know which codec to transcode all my 1080p60p mts files to for use in FCP7.

I want to use 60p especially for slow motion stuff later on. I want the best image quality. I have a macbook pro i7 with 8gig of ram, so I’m hoping that my machine will be able to handle this stuff. I’m a newb to video editing and I just need to know what to transcode all my raw files to in order to get the best image quality out of the final product.

My final product goal is 2 fold. 1) to post stuff up on the inet to share with other people (i.e. youtube or vimeo). 2) to show people my final videos in high resolution on a big screen LCD style tv in 1080p. I just downloaded Toast Titanium 10 to transcode the mts files based upon several other blogs’ recommendations. I still don’t see any settings in FCP7 that would allow me to natively edit in 1080p60p. HEEEEEEEELP! If someone could walk me through what settings I need to change in FCP7 and what to transcode my files in so that it doesn’t say that frames were skipped during playback, that would be great.

Also, as a side note, I would like to get a more professional ‘film look’ type knock off. I want my stuff to look as good as possible. I know there are several ways to go about doing this. I’ve read a lot about changing to 24fps and also using color correction to get the film look. Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated also.

I’m over here in Baghdad right now with the Army and I’m getting all kinds of great raw footage, but I need some help with this folks. Otherwise that’s all I’m going to have, raw footage.

Thanks for anyone’s help in advance.