Matthew Landfield
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Yes– it seems correct to me too, based on the settings. But what’s baffling to me is that the footage APPEARS in the right proportion in the Final Cut canvas, but when I export it (or turn off the “correct for aspect ratio” option) it appears wider– slightly distorted.
Basically what I want to do is export the footage with the same “adjustment” that Final Cut is making to compensate for the aspect ratio… And I have to admit that I just don’t know how to do this. -
Just a follow up to this post–
We did try reinstalling Final Cut Pro 6.0.2 on a clean, brand-spanking-new system running OSX.4.11, and we still could not import AVCHD material from a Panasonic HS9 consumer camcorder into the system. 🙁
Used Voltaic for the transcode, which basically ran overnight for between 1-2 hours of footage.
It seems that Final Cut will support some AVCHD material, but not others.
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Heh heh. Yep. I know this is frustrating– the only thing I can think to do is to try a clean install of Final Cut on a different machine, and try it again. (I have a second machine available to me today). If that doesn’t work, I’ll throw in the towel, buy Voltaic, and send an angry email to Apple. Will post back if I find that it works.
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Yes, I have all the P2 drivers installed, and the AVC-intra drivers. As a matter of fact, until I installed another codec, the “AVC1” codec, I couldn’t see any of the footage at all, and Final cut would just crash when I tried to ingest anything. The AVC1 codec seemed to make it possible to actually see the footage, but still produced the grayed out clips that I described earlier.
I looked on Apple’s website and found a list of supported AVCHD camcorders, and the one that I have is not on that list (it’s a client’s Panasonic HS9 HDD camera). Could it be that this camera is recording the AVCHD footage to the Hard Disk in a way that is incompatible with the Final Cut codecs? -
You can get a lot of the answers you need from the Final Cut manual, but for good tutorials try a subscription to Lynda.com
You’ll find way more info than you need.And uh… Oh yeah– there are a ton of tutorials right here on Creative Cow as well. 😉
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I’ve tried the ingest using both Apple ProRes422 and Apple Intermediate Codec using the Log and Transfer prefs, and I’ve also changed the Audio/video capture settings and the project settings to different configurations, with the same results– gray visuals, audio only. I do have the footage on the camera’s hard drive, which connects only via USB2. But I’m getting the same results with the camera and without it.
I’ve been able to test the footage a little bit using Voltaic, and it transcodes ok that way– but slow. Since Final Cut says it supports AVCHD, I’m inclined to try to get it to work if I can. -
Yes, I’ve made a disk image of the entire contents of the camera’s hard drive (footage was captured to the drive, not SD card). Still the same thing happens when I mount the disk image. Footage comes in audio only, with gray visuals. Seems like a codec is missing, or not working properly, but can’t figure out which one…