[Stace Carter]

I’m just going to jump in with related but unhelpful bitching on this one. We have a Panasonic AG-HMC70P (painfully prosumer) and Log and Capture works – but I have to break down my takes to smaller-than-preferred clips, which is a huge PITA because we do a lot of Doc work.

I actually couldn’t open the MTS file in MPEG Streamclip. Am I missing a Codec for that?

[Stace Carter]

Not sure if this is answered in the STP forum but it would be a better place to look/ask. In your Submix out – to the right of the fader it says “1-6” with a drop arrow to the right, click the arrow, drop it down to “Stereo -> 1,2”.

Trick is that STP is a Surround app by nature, so you have to tell it to “dumb down” to stereo for output.

Cheers,
S

[Stace Carter]

I just tried this and it works like a charm – thanks a million!

[Stace Carter]

Tom –

I’m testing some AVCHD footage right now and browsing the memory card from the camera, what I have here are .MTS files.

I haven’t done a lot of work with this format but have experienced problems (nay, impossibilities)when trying to transfer the footage from anything but the card the camera captured them on, in this case a Panasonic AG-HMC70P. I believe in my initial test, I shot the footage, copied it to an HD (the entire directory structure of the card, which I believe is very important) and still couldn’t get Log and Transfer to find it.

You may want to get the Camera model and see if the manufacturer has some freeware conversion software. Our Avid guy here keeps telling me that’s the only way he can edit AVCHD 😉 Again, I have no probs as long as I Transfer direct from the card in the FCP L&T tool, which transcodes to ProRes on import.

Good luck, let us know what you find out!

[Stace Carter]

Try Larry’s tip from yesterday – Creating Split Track Audio:

https://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip176.html

[Stace Carter]

hi Dave –

In the Browser, just Cmd+Click the audio and Video clips you want to “marry” which selects them, and then CTRL+Click one of those clips and choose “Merge Clips” from the contextual menu. This will bring up a dialog for options on how to synchronize the clips, 3rd option down being Timecode.

Cheers,
Stace

[Stace Carter]

Or if you don’t have Keynote, save the PPT presentation to a new folder as JPGs and that will yield you and image sequence you can import to FCP. You’ll lose animations, etc.

here’s more detail on a Keynote method:

https://www.eventdv.net/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=49665

[Stace Carter]

I’d check the movie properties in the QT player (CMD+I) and make sure they match your sequence settings.

[Stace Carter]

Have you tried Ctrl+U, which resets the standard window arrangement?

[Stace Carter]

I’m on a very similar MBP, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM and it works like a charm. I believe the biggest limiting factor is your graphics/video card – mine is a NVIDIA. Double-check FCS System requirements in that area to ensure compatibility.