[Mikael Manoukian]

Yeah, I too had high hopes for the AVCCAM IMPORTER program that Pany recently released. But, after I imported (into FCP 7) about 30GB of .MTS data from a two camera shoot of an event I had problems.

At first it worked and seemed to play in the timeline, but then I closed FCP. Upon trying to re-open the FCP project file the program stopped responding. I tried re-opening this FCP project many times and then other project files without luck.

Finally, I went back to Panasonic’s pdf that came with the download and did the uninstall process. Low and behold, Final Cut started working again. Of course, the FCP project file with .MTS data does not work as I would have hoped, but at least I have the comfort that I can access all my other FCP projects.

Yes, this Pany program does allow for viewing of .MTS files (from cameras like the HMC150 & AF100) using Quicktime 7. But, for the present I would suggest, if you are dealing with AVCCAM data, going the trusted route of “log and xfer” with transcode to a flavor of ProRes.

Cheers,

MM