[Mirco Tripoczky]

The way through Handbreak and/or MPEGStreamclip works too. I just try to have my material as less as possible be converted.. it’s always a little loss of quality through all the steps. That why I prefer the direct way from AVCHD Lite to AIC (which is used for realtime in FCE and FCP).

@Angrew: You’re right there is a “DVCPROHD Frame Rate Converter.bundle” inside the PlugIns aswell.. forgot to mention it. Leave it where it is inside the PlugIns.. sorry for the confusion.

I just did another test with my setup. Selected “Log & Transfer”, navigated to the PRIVATE folder on my desktop, selected it, clicked the “Open” button in the dialog and the clips appeared in my list at FCE. I selected the wanted clips, clicked the button below and it is imported and appears at project browser in FCE a few moments later. Sorry, no idea why it doesn’t work for you.

[Mirco Tripoczky]

I have FCE 4.0.1 here too and still no problem using Log & Transfer in FCE with my TZ7 (just imported a bunch of clips I made in Paris :o)).

Little checklist:

1. iMovie version should be 8.0.6
2. name of the “folder” inside iMovie I took the “AVCHD.RADPlug” from is “RADPlugins”
3. name of the “folder” inside FCE I copied the “AVCHD.RADPlug” to is “Plugins” and not “Plug-ins” and it relaces the default “AVCHD.RADPlug” folder in there
4. inside my “Plugins” folder of FCE are 3 folders: “AVCHD.RADPlug”, “P2.RADPlug” and “VDU.RADPlug”, not more, not less

And when you use Log & Transfer in FCE just nagivate to the “PRIVATE” folder of your camera and not further to “AVCHD” or deeper. Log & Transfer recognizes the structure by itself. It also works if you copy the PRIVATE folder to your harddisc and navigate to it when you want to use a costum path. Just don’t change the structure of that folder. The name you can change, it doesn’t matter it seems.

Hope that helps, else I have no more ideas of what could go wrong.

[Mirco Tripoczky]

I did some research and testing.. and also came accross this thread and I got a (I think) cool solution to import AVCHD Lite directly into Final Cut Express without going through iMovie.

Since Final Cut Express doesn’t like AVCHD Lite, you have to tell Final Cut Express to like it.

1. Open the Final Cut Express.app package by right clicking the icon and choose show content. At Contents/Plugins you find a folder called: “AVCHD.RADPlug”. Make a backup of that folder.

2. Now Open the iMovie.app package by right clicking the icon and choose show content. At Contents/RADPlugins you find a folder called: “AVCHD.RADPlug”. Copy that folder to where you found the folder with the same name inside the Final Cut Express.app package.

Start Final Cut Express, use Log and Transfer and easily import AVCHD Lite clips to Final Cut Express.

That’s maybe a workaround.. and you do this on your own risk, for me it worked perfectly with the AVCHD Lite clips of my Panasonic TZ7.